1 variant: 霸 bà

1 father's elder brother

2 uncle

1 wife of father's elder brother

2 aunt

3 (polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother)

4 classifier: 个 gè

1 earl

2 count

3 earldom or countship (old)

1 husband's older brother

2 brother-in-law

1 lit. unable to distinguish eldest brother from second brother (idiom); they are all equally excellent

2 nothing to choose between them

1 lit. there are many swift horses, but very few who can spot them (idiom)

2 fig. many have talent, but few can recognize talent when they see it