被 bèi▶ ปกคลุม; ครอบคลุม

Stroke order

被 is written in 10 strokes.

• 被

Senses

1. quilt
2. to cover (with)
3. (literary) to suffer (a misfortune)
4. 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

• 被子ผ้าห่มนวม
• 被动เฉื่อยชา, ไม่กระตือรือร้น
• 被告จำเลย

被 is pronounced bèi and means “ปกคลุม; ครอบคลุม”. 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.