1 variant: 霸 bà

1 father's elder brother

2 uncle

1 husband's older brother

2 brother-in-law

1 tail

2 remainder

3 remnant

4 extremity

5 sixth of the 28 constellations

6 classifier for fish

1 tail

2 colloquial pr. [yǐ ba]

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

1 lit. head in Wu and tail in Chu (idiom); fig. close together

2 head-to-tail

3 one thing starts where the other leaves off

1 lit. would rather be a chicken's head than a phoenix's tail (idiom)

2 fig. to prefer to be a big fish in a small pond rather than a small fish in a big pond

1 large tail obstructs action (idiom); bottom heavy

2 fig. rendered ineffective by subordinates