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贝壳

bèi ké

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

贝壳 (bèi ké) means "shell; conch; cowry". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 贝壳 means

1. shell (of a mollusk)

The characters in 贝壳

• 贝bèicowrie; shellfish; currency (archaic)
• 壳ké(colloquial) shell (of an egg, nut, crab etc); case; casing…

Example sentences

• 她在海边卖贝壳。
  Tā zài hǎibiān mài bèiké.
  She sells seashells by the seashore.
• 我在海边捡了个漂亮贝壳。
  I picked up a pretty shell at the seaside.
• 在我手里的是一个贝壳化石。
  Zài wǒ shǒulǐ de shì yī gè bèiké huàshí.
  What I have in my hand is a fossil seashell.
• 我在海滩上发现了一个漂亮的贝壳。
  Wǒ zài hǎitān shàng fāxiàn le yī gè piàoliang de bèiké.
  I found a beautiful shell on the shore.

Words starting with 贝壳

• 贝壳儿bèi ké rerhua variant of 贝壳

Where 贝壳 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 bèi ké correctly.
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