Chinese Character 被 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

被 meaning[3] in English

Quilt.

By.

(Indicates Passive-Voice Clauses).

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are the left-radical form … (衤) , and surname Pi (皮)

Its radical[1] is: (yi1) which means: Clothes, Cl:件[Jian4], Kangxi Radical 145, .yi1clothes

In cangjie it is written with LDHE

How to write 被

To writebei4quilt you should write a combination of yi1the left-radical … , pi2surname Pi arranged in a shape:

+ =

被 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 被 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of , looks as follow:

Pinyin:bei4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Quilt . By . (Indicates Passive-Voice Clauses) . (Literary) To Cover . To Meet With . (Coll.) (Since C. 2009) Used Before A Verb That Does Not Accurately Represent What Actually Happened, To Describe With Black Humor How Sb Or Sth Was Dealt With By The Authorities (As In 被自殺|被自杀[Bei4 Zi4 Sha1])

Pinyin:yi1 Shape:
Meaning[3]: The Left-Radical Form Of Kangxi Radical 145, 衣[Yi1]

Pinyin:pi2
Meaning[3]: Surname Pi

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: section shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

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