被 (bèi)
quilt; by (indicates passive voice)
How 被 is written
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 衤 — clothes
- Traditional
- 被
- Simplified
- 被 (unchanged)
Components
- 衤 clothes
- 皮 skin
Common words using 被
- 被子 bèizi
- quilt; CL:床[chuang2]
- 被窩 bèiwō
- traditional sleeping pad (quilt wrapped around the body as a tube)
- 包被 bāobèi
- peridium (envelope or coat of fungi, e.g. puffballs)
- 墊被 diànbèi
- mattress
- 棉被 miánbèi
- comforter; quilt; CL:條|条[tiao2],面[mian4]
- 植被 zhíbèi
- vegetation; plant cover
- 花被 huābèi
- perianth (common term for calyx and corolla); border and protecting envelope of a flower
- 被動 bèidòng
- passive
- 被告 bèigào
- defendant
- 被告人 bèigàorén
- defendant (in legal case)
- 被單 bèidān
- (bed) sheet; envelope for a padded coverlet; CL:床[chuang2]
- 被套 bèitào
- quilt cover; to have money stuck (in stocks, real estate etc)
被 in a sentence
我的布丁被弟弟吃掉了。
Wǒ de bùdīng bèi dìdi chī diào le.
“My pudding was eaten by my younger brother.”
How common is 被?
被 is the 154th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 50.3% of all running text.
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