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贝
貝
bèi
1. cowrie
2. shellfish
3. currency (archaic)
Very Common • Top 1% ✏️ 7 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

贝
bèi
sea shell; money, currency
HSK 5 4 丶

Compound Words (20)

丹贝
dānbèi
see [[天貝|天贝<tiānbèi>]]
干贝
gānbèi
conpoy
仙贝
xiānbèi
rice cracker
分贝
fēnbèi
decibel
吉贝
jíbèi
kapok (Ceiba pentandra)
天贝
tiānbèi
tempeh, traditional Indonesian dish made from deep-fried fermented soybean
宝贝
bǎobèi
treasured object
HSK 5
小贝
Xiǎobèi
"Becks", nickname of British footballer David Beckham (see [[貝克漢姆|贝克汉姆<Bèikèhànmǔ>]])
川贝
Chuānbèi
Sichuan fritillary bulb (Bulbus fritillariae cirrhosae, used in TCM)
扇贝
shànbèi
scallop (genus Pecten)
拷贝
kǎobèi
copy
护贝
hùbèi
laminate film
贝丘
bèiqiū
shell mound
贝九
Bèijiǔ
Beethoven's Ninth
贝克
Bèikè
Baker or Becker (name)
贝克
bèikè
becquerel (unit of radioactivity, symbol Bq)
贝南
Bèinán
Benin, West Africa (Tw)
贝司
bèisī
bass (loanword)
贝塔
bèitǎ
beta (Greek letter Ββ)
贝多
bèiduō
pattra palm tree (loan from Sanskrit, Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as paper substitute for Buddhist sutras

Alternate Entries

贝
Bèi
surname Bei

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
5
Character Frequency Rank
1,132
Word Frequency Rank
675 of 84,292
Radical Number
154