| BEI-4
(‘bei’ in the fourth tone)
Some 40 standard Chinese characters have a ‘bei’
pronunciation. Major sound-indicating components are; 北 (5 occurences), 贝 (5), 卑 (7)
The most common ‘bei’-spoken words are:
被 = bei(4) = quilt, (used for
sentence constructions in the passiv voice)
北 = bei(2) = north
备 = bei(4) = to prepare
备 = bei(4) = get ready
请准备 = qing(3) zhun(3) bei(4) = (the
'u' in the third tone is spoken as u-e = Please get ready
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被 = bei(4) = quilt
When the 被 is not already part of a two-character construction, the following
two-character version is usually preferred:
被子 = bei(4)zi(-) = quilt
被单 = bei(4)dan(1) = bed sheet, quilt
cover
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他们把被单换了. = Ta(3)men(3) ba(3)
bei(4)dan(1) huan(4) le(-). = They changed already the bed sheet. More
literally: By them, bed sheet changed already.
(For the above Chinese, insert link to sound
file: ba-beidan.wav)
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被 = bei(4) = used for passive voice
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我的牙被拔掉了. = Wo(3)de(-) ya(2) bei(4) ba(2) diao(4) le(-). = My
tooth was already pulled out.
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老板已经被杀死了. = Lao(3)ban(3) yi(3)jing(-) bei(4) sha(1) si(3)
le(-). = The boss was already killed (dead).
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全部东西都被用完了. = Quan(2)bu(4) dong(1)xi(1) dou(1) bei(4) yong(4)
wan(2) le(-). = All things (all) were used up.
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贝 = bei(4) = shell used as money in the past; not used often as a
independent character, but part of many characters that have to do with values
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