bei4
zi5
  1. quilt
  2. CL:床[chuang2]

Characters

  • 被 (被): 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 被旅遊|被旅游[bei4 lu:3 you2] to "go on a trip", for example)
  • 子 (子): son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat; viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north); subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-

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Examples

冬天我总是需要多加条被子。

食物和被子被送到难民手中。

我能要一条被子吗?

她叠好了被子。

冬天我蓋一條被子。

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