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Mythic Mandarin

备用 (bèi yòng): meaning and stroke order

备用 (bèi yòng) means reserve, spare, alternate, backup.

备用

Simplified
备用
Traditional
備用
Pinyin
bèi yòng

Stroke order of 备用

备

  • bèi variant of 備|备[bei4]
  • bèi (bound form) to prepare; to equip; (literary) fully; completely
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 俻

Stroke by stroke

用

  • yòng to use; to make use of; to employ; (coverb) with; using
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 备用

  1. bèi yòng Traditional 備用
    • reserve
    • spare
    • alternate
    • backup

Radicals of the characters

备
Radical 夂 (Kangxi radical 34) · 8 strokes · 夂 on top, 田 below
用
Radical 用 (Kangxi radical 101) · 5 strokes

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.

备用 in our stories

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  • 他把自己的备用氧气瓶换给了玛尔塔。丹增在前面拉，他在后面扶，两个人一步一步地把她往下带。

    tā bǎ zìjǐ de bèiyòng yǎngqìpíng huàn gěi le Mǎ'ěrtǎ Dānzēng zài qiánmiàn lā tā zài hòumiàn fú liǎng gè rén yí bù yí bù de bǎ tā wǎng xià dài

    He gave Marta his spare oxygen bottle. Tenzing pulled in front and he supported her from behind, and step by step the two of them brought her down.

    From the story Two hundred metres from the summit HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 备用

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).