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The character "爸", meaning father, is a relatively late formation in Chinese writing, created as a phono-semantic compound to represent a colloquial paternal term that existed in speech long before it was committed to script. Its structure combines the semantic component 父, which is the classical and pictographic character for father, with the component 巴 serving a purely phonetic function to indicate its pronunciation. This construction follows a common pattern where a new, more specific character is built upon an older, more general semantic root by adding a phonetic indicator for a spoken word, in this case formalizing the familiar term "bà". The traditional form of the character is identical to the simplified one, and its meaning has remained consistently focused on the direct paternal address since its adoption into the written lexicon.
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我的爸爸爱我。
爸爸在上班。
我爸爸是医生。
爸爸给我买礼物。
我和爸爸去公园。
爸爸每天都很忙。
我帮爸爸做家务。
爸爸教我怎么骑车。