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Mythic Mandarin

被 (bèi): meaning and stroke order

被 (bèi) means quilt, to cover (with), (literary) to suffer (a misfortune).

被

Simplified
被
Traditional
被 (same form)
Pinyin
bèi

Stroke order of 被

被

  • bèi quilt; to cover (with)
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 被

  1. 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 : 3 you2] to "go on a trip")

Radical and structure

被
Radical 衣 (Kangxi radical 145) · 11 strokes · 衤 on the left, 皮 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 被

被 in our stories

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  • 第一次，它被水冲了回来；第二次，它撞到了石头上。

    dì-yī cì tā bèi shuǐ chōng le huílai dì-èr cì tā zhuàng dào le shítou shàng

    The first time, the water swept it back; the second time, it hit a rock.

    From the story The little carp's decision HSK 3

  • 最后，一盘夫妻肺片都被她一个人吃完了。

    zuìhòu yì pán fūqī fèipiàn dōu bèi tā yí gè rén chī wán le

    In the end she eats the whole plate by herself.

    From the story "Husband and wife lung slices" HSK 3

  • 电话号码被一只小猫挡住了。

    diànhuà hàomǎ bèi yì zhī xiǎo māo dǎng zhù le

    The phone number is covered by a little cat.

    From the story Drawing legs on a snake HSK 3

Stories using 被

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).