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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
bèi - quilt
- to cover (with)
- (literary) to suffer (a misfortune)
- used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb)
- (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅遊|被旅游[bei4 lu:3you2] to "go on a trip")

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
3 3 65 45 63

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Cloth

Other Words Containing

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
3 3 65 45 63
被捕 - 7 1,907 10,536 16,824
被告 6 6 2,424 4,864 16,422
被迫 - 4 4,267 5,454 7,521
被害人 - - 4,930 12,365 24,533
被告人 - - 8,003 7,324 24,746
被害者 - - 9,866 52,298 46,760
被子 5 3 10,116 6,252 2,638
被动 6 5 12,557 5,699 8,652
被单 - - 19,489 35,076 23,422
被窝 - - 23,942 7,153 2,452
植被 - - 29,833 13,371 28,365
被套 - - 32,604 23,683 15,578
被褥 - - 34,912 27,460 27,311
棉被 - - 39,018 17,180 11,769
聪明反被聪明误 - - 39,727 76,496 47,368
被除数 - - 75,507 - -
垫被 - - 95,611 - -
被子植物 - - 95,958 - -