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爸爸

ba

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Meaning

Measure word

wèi

Example sentence

我爸爸是老师。

wǒ bàba shì lǎoshī.

My dad is a teacher.

Characters in 爸爸

father, doubled. Chinese reduplicates the closest kinship terms — 妈妈, 哥哥, 姐姐, 弟弟, 妹妹 — and the doubling is what makes them the everyday spoken words rather than the formal 父亲.

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