bèi

sea shell; money, currency

DEFINITIONS

  • sea shell
  • money, currency
  • surname Bei
  • cowrie
  • shellfish
  • currency (archaic)

STROKES

貝 stroke order diagram

WORDS

xiǎo bèi "Becks", nickname of British footballer David Beckham (see 貝克漢姆|贝克汉姆[Bei4 ke4 han4 mu3])
chuān bèi Sichuan fritillary bulb (Bulbus fritillariae cirrhosae, used in TCM)
多 bā bèi duō Barbados, Caribbean island (Tw)
西亞原蟲病 bā bèi xī yà yuán chóng bìng babesiosis
心肝寶 xīn gān bǎo bèi precious darling (often refers to one's child); sweetheart
shàn bèi scallop (genus Pecten)
kǎo bèi copy; to copy (loanword)
得 áo bèi dé Obed (name)
斯坦克 sī tǎn bèi kè John Steinbeck (1902-1968), US novelist
梵冊葉 fàn cè bèi yè Sanskrit on Talipot palm leaves (idiom); Buddhist scripture
櫛孔扇 zhì kǒng shàn bèi Farrer's scallop (Chlamys farreri), aka Chinese scallop
滕斯格 téng sī bèi gé Tønsberg (city in Vestfold, Norway)
瑪瑙 mǎ nǎo bèi cowrie
神奇寶 shén qí bǎo bèi Pokémon or Pocket Monsters, popular Japanese video game, anime and manga
福祿爾 fú lù bèi ěr surname Fröbel or Froebel; Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel (1782-1852), German pedagogue
穆加 mù jiā bèi Robert Mugabe (1924-), Zimbabwean ZANU-PF politician, president of Zimbabwe 1987-2017
約翰・拉 yuē hàn ・ lā bèi John Rabe (1882-1950), German who helped protect Chinese during the Nanking massacre period
聖德克旭里 shèng dé kè xù bèi lǐ (Antoine de) Saint-Exupéry
荷莉・瑞 hé lì ・ bèi ruì Halle Berry (1966-), US actress
爾 nuò bèi ěr Nobel (Prize)
爾和平獎 nuò bèi ěr hé píng jiǎng Nobel Peace Prize
爾文學獎 nuò bèi ěr wén xué jiǎng Nobel Prize in Literature
爾物理學獎 nuò bèi ěr wù lǐ xué jiǎng Nobel Prize in Physics
爾獎 nuò bèi ěr jiǎng Nobel Prize
hù bèi (stationery) to laminate (Tw)