Dictionary › 后备

后备

hòu bèi

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 後備

后备 (hòu bèi) means "reserve; backup". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 后备 means

1. reserve; backup

The characters in 后备

• 后hòuempress; queen; (archaic) monarch
• 备bèi(bound form) to prepare; to equip; (literary) fully; completely

Example sentences

• 后备箱满了。
  The trunk is full.
• 我打开了后备箱。
  I opened the trunk.
• 后备箱内有具尸体。
  There's a body in the trunk of the car.

Words starting with 后备

• 后备箱hòu bèi xiāngtrunk; boot (of a car)
• 后备军hòu bèi jūnrearguard

Sounds the same

Read hòu bèi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 后背the back (human anatomy); the back part of sth
• 后辈younger generation

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read hòu bèi correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.