beibài

final particle of assertion

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

貝 sound component

  Sound component

bèi

  

sea shell

Definitions

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bei

final particle of assertion pathaka; modal particle indicating indicating lack of enthusiasm; modal particle indicating that things should only or can only be done a certain way

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bài

to chant; see 梵唄|梵呗[fàn​bài]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.5171% of movies

2599th most common character in movies

3962nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Simplified

Unicode

U+5504


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