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Stroke order
被 is written in 10 strokes.
- 被
Senses
- 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)
Example sentences
- 被子在床上。Bèizi zài chuáng shàng.The quilt is on the bed.
- 请把被子给我。Qǐng bǎ bèizi gěi wǒ.Please give me the quilt.
Related words
被 is pronounced bèi and means “cubrir”. It belongs to the HSK 3 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 被 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.