Chinese Character 被 Meanings and components.
Form
被
Meaning
- 被 meaning[3] in English
Quilt.
By.
(Indicates Passive-Voice Clauses).
Main Components
By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 被 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: 衣 (yi1) which means: Clothes, Cl:件[Jian4], Kangxi Radical 145, .衣
In cangjie it is written with LDHE
How to write 被
To write被 you should write a combination of 衤 , 皮 arranged in a 吅 shape:
衤 + 皮 = 被
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 被, looks as follow:
被
Pinyin:bei4 Shape:吅
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])