bèi

sea shell; money, currency

HSK 5 #1133

DEFINITIONS

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

STROKES

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WORDS

bǎo bèi treasured object; treasure; darling; baby; cowry; good-for-nothing or queer character
壳 bèi ké shell; conch; cowry; mother of pearl; hard outer skin; also pr. [bei4 qiao4]
克 bèi kè Baker or Becker (name); becquerel (unit of radioactivity, symbol Bq); abbr. for 貝克勒爾|贝克勒尔[bei4 ke4 le4 er3]
尔 bèi ěr Bell (person name)
kǎo bèi copy; to copy (loanword)
拉 bèi lā Beira, Mozambique
多芬 bèi duō fēn Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), German composer
尔奖 nuò bèi ěr jiǎng Nobel Prize
尔 nuò bèi ěr Nobel (Prize)
斯 bèi sī Bes, a minor god of ancient Egypt; bass (loanword); bass guitar
尔 kǎn bèi ěr Campbell (name)
鲁特 bèi lǔ tè Beirut, capital of Lebanon
páng bèi Pompeii, ancient Roman town near Naples, Italy
克汉姆 bèi kè hàn mǔ Beckenham or Beckham (name); David Beckham (1975-), British midfield footballer
雷帽 bèi léi mào beret (loanword)
切尔诺利 qiē ěr nuò bèi lì Chernobyl
尔格莱德 bèi ěr gé lái dé Belgrade, capital of Serbia
心肝宝 xīn gān bǎo bèi precious darling (often refers to one's child); sweetheart
shàn bèi scallop (genus Pecten)
类 bèi lèi shellfish; mollusks
尔法斯特 bèi ěr fǎ sī tè Belfast, capital of Northern Ireland
尔 ā bèi ěr Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829), Norwegian mathematician; (math.) abelian
fēn bèi decibel
宁 bèi níng Benin
多 bèi duō pattra palm tree (loan from Sanskrit, Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as paper substitute for Buddhist sutras
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