覇
bà
rule by might rather than right
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Most common words with 覇
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
a power struggle | ||
hegemon | ||
imperious | ||
hegemon | ||
abbr. for 霸王之道 |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 6.4392% of movies
1913th most common character in movies
1838th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Unicode | U+8987 |
Shuowen | “霸,月始生霸然也,承大月二日,承小月三日。从月,聲。《周書》曰:‘哉生霸。’,古文霸。” |
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