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贝

bèi

HSK 5 Character Traditional 貝

What 贝 means

1. cowrie
2. shellfish
3. currency (archaic)

Other readings

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

• Bèisurname Bei

Example sentences

• 宝贝！
  My precious!
• 宝贝。
  My precious.
• 贝蒂杀了她。
  Betty killed her.
• 贝蒂杀了他。
  Betty murdered him.
• 麻烦拷贝这个。
  Máfan kǎobèi zhège.
  Please copy this.
• 贝蒂开车很快。
  Betty drives fast.

Words starting with 贝

• 贝壳bèi késhell (of a mollusk)
• 贝多芬Bèi duō fēnLudwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), German composer
• 贝尔Bèi ěrBell (person name)
• 贝克汉姆Bèi kè hàn mǔBeckenham or Beckham (name); David Beckham (1975-), British midfield footballer
• 贝克bèi kèbecquerel (unit of radioactivity, symbol Bq) (abbr. for 贝克勒尔
• 贝鲁特Bèi lǔ tèBeirut, capital of Lebanon
• 贝斯bèi sī(loanword) bass (esp. bass guitar)
• 贝塔bèi tǎbeta (Greek letter Β, β)
• 贝宝Bèi bǎoPayPal (Internet payment and money transfer company)
• 贝类bèi lèishellfish; mollusks
• 贝拉Bèi lāBeira, Mozambique
• 贝司bèi sī(music; loanword) bass
• 贝宁Bèi níngBenin
• 贝南Bèi nánBenin (Tw)
• 贝多bèi duōpattra palm tree (loan from Sanskrit, Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as…
• 贝果bèi guǒ(loanword) bagel
• 贝母bèi mǔthe bulb of the fritillary (Fritillaria thunbergii)
• 贝克尔Bèi kè ěrBaker or Becker (name)
• 贝内特Bèi nèi tè(surname) Bennett
• 贝努力Bèi nǔ lìBernoulli (Swiss mathematical family, including Johann (1667-1748) and Daniel (1700-1782))
• 贝拉米Bèi lā mǐBellamy
• 贝斯手bèi sī shǒubassist; bass player
• 贝纳通Bèi nà tōngBenetton, clothes company
• 贝里斯Bèi lǐ sīBelize (Tw)

Words containing 贝

• 宝贝bǎo bèitreasured object; treasure; darling
• 诺贝尔Nuò bèi ěrNobel (Prize)
• 诺贝尔奖Nuò bèi ěr JiǎngNobel Prize
• 拷贝kǎo bèicopy; to copy (loanword)
• 小贝Xiǎo bèi"Becks", nickname of British footballer David Beckham (see 贝克汉姆
• 分贝fēn bèidecibel
• 干贝gān bèiconpoy; dried scallop (dried adductor muscle of a scallop)
• 吉贝jí bèikapok (Ceiba pentandra)
• 天贝tiān bèi(loanword) tempeh
• 护贝hù bèi(Taiwan) (stationery) to laminate
• 哈贝尔Hā bèi ěrHabel, Haber or Hubbell (name); Harbel (town in Liberia)
• 巴贝多Bā bèi duōBarbados, Caribbean island (Tw)
• 护贝机hù bèi jīlaminating machine; laminator
• 阿贝尔Ā bèi ěrNiels Henrik Abel (1802-1829), Norwegian mathematician; (math) abelian
• 阿贝贝ā bèi bèi(neologism) transitional object; comfort object
• 电贝斯diàn bèi sīelectric bass (guitar)
• 哈贝马斯Hā bèi mǎ sīJürgen Habermas (1929-), German social philosopher
• 斯坦贝克Sī tǎn bèi kèJohn Steinbeck (1902-1968), US novelist
• 阿卡贝拉ā kǎ bèi lā(loanword) a cappella
• 非阿贝尔fēi ā bèi ěr(math) non-abelian
• 马尔贝克Mǎ ěr bèi kèMalbec (grape type)
• 鼓打贝斯gǔ dǎ bèi sīdrum and bass (music genre)
• 切尔诺贝利Qiē ěr nuò bèi lìChernobyl
• 呼伦贝尔市Hū lún bèi ěr ShìHulunbuir, prefecture-level city in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region 内蒙古自治区

Characters that look like 贝

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

• 见jiànto see; to meet; to appear (to be sth)
• 及jíand; to reach; up to
• 日rì(bound form) sun; day; day of the month
• 目mùeye; (literary) to look; to regard; eye (of a net); mesh
• 且qiěand; moreover; yet
• 圣shèng(bound form) peerless (in wisdom, moral virtue, skill etc)…

Sounds the same

Read bèi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 被quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune)
• 备(bound form) to prepare; to equip; (literary) fully; completely
• 背the back of a body or object; to turn one's back; to hide something from
• 倍(two, three etc) -fold; times (multiplier); double
• 辈lifetime; generation; group of people
• 惫exhausted
• 狈a legendary wolf; distressed; wretched
• 蓓used in 蓓蕾
• 焙to dry over a fire; to bake
• 悖to go against; to be contrary to; perverse
• 钡barium (chemistry)
• 孛comet