to long for, to wish, to cling to, to stick to, sth that sticks, close to, next to, spread open, informal abbreviation for bus 巴士, bar (unit of pressure), nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴, tail
Ba state during Zhou dynasty (in east of modern Sichuan), abbreviation for east Sichuan or Chongqing, abbreviation for Palestine or Palestinian, abbreviation for Pakistan