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瘪

biě

Character Traditional 癟

What 瘪 means

1. deflated
2. shriveled
3. sunken
4. empty

Other readings

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

• biěvariant of {瘪|biě}

Example sentences

• 我有个轮胎瘪了。
  I have a flat tire.

Words starting with 瘪

• 瘪三biē sān(Wu dialect) bum; wretched-looking tramp who lives by begging or stealing
• 瘪陷biě xiàndeflated
• 瘪螺痧biě luó shācholera (with dehydration)

Words containing 瘪

• 干瘪gān biědried out; wizened; shriveled
• 受瘪shòu biědiscomfited; to get into a mess
• 吃瘪chī biě(colloquial) to suffer a humiliation

Characters that look like 瘪

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 愿yuànhonest and prudent; variant of 愿
• 瘤liútumor
• 瘟wēnepidemic; pestilence; plague; (fig.) stupid; dull; (of a performance) lackluster
• 瘩daused in 疙瘩
• 瘙sàoitch; old term for scabies; Taiwan pr. sāo
• 瘢bānmark; scar on the skin