巴尔扎克

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist, author of series La comédie humaine

Ba state during Zhou dynasty (in east of modern Sichuan) / abbr. for east Sichuan or Chongqing / surname Ba / abbr. for Palestine or Palestinian / abbr. for Pakistan

to long for / to wish / to cling to / to stick to / sth that sticks / close to / next to / spread open / informal abbr. for bus 巴士[ba1 shi4] / bar (unit of pressure) / nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail

variant of 爾|尔[er3]

thus / so / like that / you / thou

to prick / to run or stick (a needle etc) into / mug or jug used for serving beer (loanword from "jar")

penetrating (as of cold) / struggle

variant of 紮|扎[za1]

variant of 紮|扎[zha1]

to tie / to bind / classifier for flowers, banknotes etc: bundle / Taiwan pr. [zha2]

(of troops) to be stationed (at) / Taiwan pr. [zha2]

used in 挣扎[zheng1 zha2]

abbr. for 克羅地亞|克罗地亚[Ke4 luo2 di4 ya4], Croatia / (Tw) abbr. for 克羅埃西亞|克罗埃西亚[Ke4 luo2 ai1 xi1 ya4], Croatia

to be able to / to subdue / to restrain / to overcome / gram / Tibetan unit of land area, about 6 ares

Ke (c. 2000 BC), seventh of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God

variant of 克[ke4] / to subdue / to overthrow / to restrain

variant of 剋|克[ke4]