Ā bà 
		Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture (Tibetan: rnga ba bod rigs cha'ng rigs rang skyong khul, formerly in Kham province of Tibet), northwest Sichuan, capital Barkam 馬爾康鎮|马尔康镇[Ma3 er3 kang1 zhen4]
also Ngawa county
		 
		
		
														
		
		
			 
		
				
		
			Ā bā 
		Aba, southeast Nigerian city
Aba, the Lisu 傈僳 word for grandfather
		 
		
		
		
		
			 
		
				
		
			Ā bà 
		Abba (Aramaic word father)
by ext. God the Father in Christian gospel
		 
		
		
		
		
					
				
		
			Bā shān yè yǔ 
		rain on Mt Ba (idiom); lonely in a strange land
Evening Rain, 1980 movie about the Cultural revolution
		 
		
		
														
		
		
			 
		
				
		
			wén xué shì 
		Bachelor of Arts
B.A.
BA
A.B.
Artium Baccalaureus
		 
		
		
		
		
			 
		
				
		
			Bā yàn hào tè shì 
		Bayan Hot, capital of Alxa league 阿拉善盟[Ā lā shàn méng], Inner Mongolia
also written 巴彥浩特鎮|巴彦浩特镇[Bā yàn hào tè zhèn]
		 
		
		
														
		
		
			 
		
				
		
			xíng yì 
		derivation of a Chinese loanword from Japanese by using the same characters (or variants) but applying Chinese pronunciation (e.g. 場合|场合[chang3 he2], derived from Japanese 場合, pronounced "ba'ai")