被
HSK 3 · Intermediate
被 Stroke Order: How to Write 被
- Pinyin
- bèi
- Meaning
- by (passive marker)
- Total strokes
- 10
More meanings
quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example)
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Every character begins with a single stroke.
One stroke at a time
10 strokes被 — 10 strokes
Radical: 衤 yī (cloth)
Strokes in order
- 1.点diǎn · Dot stroke
- 2.横撇héng piě · Horizontal left-falling stroke
- 3.竖shù · Vertical stroke
- 4.点diǎn · Dot stroke
- 5.点diǎn · Dot stroke
- 6.横折héng zhé · Horizontal turning stroke
- 7.撇piě · Left-falling stroke
- 8.竖shù · Vertical stroke
- 9.横折héng zhé · Horizontal turning stroke
- 10.捺nà · Right-falling stroke