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被子

bèi zi

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Measure word 条、床

被子 (bèi zi) means "quilt". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 被子 means

1. blanket; quilt

The characters in 被子

• 被bèiquilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune)
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子

Example sentences

• 折被子。
  Fold the quilt.
• 她叠好了被子。
  Tā dié hǎo le bèizi.
  She folded the quilt.
• 这条被子很暖和。
  This quilt is very warm.
• 还想要张被子吗？
  Still want a quilt?
• 我能要一条被子吗?
  Can I have a quilt?
• 冬天我盖一条被子。
  In winter, I cover myself with a quilt.

Words starting with 被子

• 被子植物bèi zǐ zhí wùangiosperm (flowering plants with seed contained in a fruit)
• 被子植物门bèi zǐ zhí wù ménangiospermae (phylum of flowering plants with seed contained in a fruit)

Sounds the same

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

• 辈子all one's life; lifetime

Where 被子 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Containers & Everyday Objects (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read bèi zi correctly.
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