被

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 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example)

Radical: 衤 HSK 3 p, g, d pictophonetic

Components & Etymology

被 decomposes into the following components:

衤 皮

Semantic component: 衤; phonetic component: 皮.

Words containing 被

Common multi-character words and phrases that include 被.

包被
bāo bèi
垫被
diàn bèi
棉被
mián bèi
植被
zhí bèi
花被
huā bèi
被动
bèi dòng
被单
bèi dān
被卧
bèi wo
被告
bèi gào
被困
bèi kùn
被墙
bèi qiáng
被套
bèi tào

Related characters (radical 衤)

Characters that share the radical 衤.

衤 补 衩 衫 衬 衲 衹 衽 衿 袂 袄 袍 袒 袖 袜 袟 袢 袮 袯 袱 袴 袷 袼 裆

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