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The character "吧" developed from the traditional character "罷", which historically functioned as a sentence-final particle, with "吧" being constructed by joining the mouth radical "口" to the phonetic element "巴" to establish a dedicated form for this grammatical purpose. Its structure explicitly denotes an association with speech through the mouth component while "巴" provides auditory guidance, making it a phonetic loan character adopted to transcribe colloquial nuances. Initially capturing tonal qualities of conversation, it steadily acquired a fixed role as a modal particle that indicates suggestion or mitigates imperative force, entirely displacing the earlier connection to "罷’s" lexical meaning of cessation and refining its application to modulate sentence mood in written vernacular Chinese.
Example Sentences Hide
我们走吧，好吗？
这杯饮料很好喝吧。
大家快过来吧。
我们去图书馆学习吧。
他大概已经知道这个消息了吧。
周末我们一起去新开的酒吧坐坐吧。
时间不早了，你先把作业做完吧。
既然你如此坚持自己的意见，那就按照你说的办法试试看吧。