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Mythic Mandarin

被子 (bèi zi): meaning and stroke order

被子 (bèi zi) means blanket; quilt, 条,床.

被子

Simplified
被子
Traditional
被子 (same form)
Pinyin
bèi zi

Stroke order of 被子

被

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

Stroke by stroke

子

  • zǐ son; child
  • zi noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 被子

  1. bèi zi
    • blanket; quilt
    • CL:條|条[tiao2],床[chuang2]

Radicals of the characters

被
Radical 衣 (Kangxi radical 145) · 11 strokes · 衤 on the left, 皮 on the right
子
Radical 子 (Kangxi radical 39) · 3 strokes · built from 了 and 一

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.

被子 in our stories

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  • 他一遍又一遍地跟她讲自己的女儿：女儿小时候怕打雷，一打雷就钻进他的被子里，他就唱一首自己编的歌哄她睡觉。

    tā yí biàn yòu yí biàn de gēn tā jiǎng zìjǐ de nǚ'ér nǚ'ér xiǎoshíhou pà dǎléi yì dǎléi jiù zuān jìn tā de bèizi lǐ tā jiù chàng yì shǒu zìjǐ biān de gē hǒng tā shuìjiào

    Again and again he told her about his daughter: as a little girl she was afraid of thunder, and whenever it thundered she crawled under his quilt, and he would sing a song he had made up to lull her to sleep.

    From the story The song in the thunderstorm HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 被子

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).