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便宜

pián yi

Old HSK 2 HSK 3.0 level 1 2-character word

便宜 (pián yi) means "cheap; inexpensive". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was HSK 2 in the old six-level list.

What 便宜 means

1. cheap; inexpensive
2. a petty advantage
3. to let sb off lightly

Other readings

便宜 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• biàn yíconvenient

The characters in 便宜

• 便biànplain; informal; suitable
• 宜yíproper; should; suitable

Example sentences

• 似乎很便宜。
  It seemed to be cheap.
• 这个很便宜。
  This is cheap.
• 哇！真便宜啊！
  Wā! zhēn piányi ā!
  Wow! That's cheap!
• 它真的很便宜。
  It was really cheap.
• 今天鱼很便宜。
  Fish is cheap today.
• 土豆很便宜的。
  Potatoes are very cheap.

Words starting with 便宜

• 便宜货pián yi huòa bargain; cheap goods
• 便宜行事biàn yí xíng shìact at one's discretion; act as one sees fit

Words containing 便宜

• 占便宜zhàn pián yiadvantageous; favorable; to benefit at others' expense
• 小便宜xiǎo pián yipetty advantage; small gains
• 讨便宜tǎo pián yito look for a bargain; to seek advantage; to try to gain at expense of others
• 得便宜卖乖dé pián yi mài guāito have benefited from sth but pretend otherwise; to claim to be hard done by, even…

Where 便宜 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Money and Shopping (HSK 2), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 2 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read pián yi correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.