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卑鄙

bēi bǐ

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

卑鄙 (bēi bǐ) means "base; mean; contemptible". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 卑鄙 means

1. base
2. mean
3. contemptible
4. despicable

The characters in 卑鄙

• 卑bēilow; base; vulgar
• 鄙bǐrustic; low; base

Example sentences

• 他是个卑鄙小人。
  Tā shì gè bēibǐ xiǎorén.
  He is a despicable person.
• 我为你的卑鄙行径刚到羞耻。
  Wǒ wèi nǐ de bēibǐ xíngjìng gāng dào xiūchǐ.
  I am ashamed of your despicable deed.
• 我为你的卑鄙行径感到羞耻。
  I am ashamed of your despicable deed.
• 在你面前有一百万美金。你可以自己留下或帮一个你不认识的快全身瘫痪的人做手术。他不认识你，你也不认识他。当然，无论你慷慨地把所有的钱都捐给了一个素不相识的人去做手术，还是卑鄙地拿走这笔钱，让那个人今生都只能卧床不起，都不会有人知道。你会怎幺做呢？这笔钱不可割分。
  You've got a million dollars in front of you. You can either spend it for yourself or spend it on a surgery for someone you don't know who is in danger of quadriplegia. You don't know each other. And no one will ever know what a noble deed you've done sacrificing all the money for the surgery for a person you don't know, or how mean you were to take the money confining that person to a wheelchair for the rest of their life. So what would you do? You can't share the money.

Words starting with 卑鄙

• 卑鄙无耻bēi bǐ wú chǐ(idiom) shameless; despicable; devoid of integrity
• 卑鄙龌龊bēi bǐ wò chuòsordid and contemptible (idiom); vile and repulsive (esp. character or action)

Where 卑鄙 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · bēi–běn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read bēi bǐ correctly.
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