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被
bèi
HSK 3
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)
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Passive marker: 被 (+ agent) + verb, e.g. 被造 ‘was created’.
Characters
被
bedding; a passive particle meaning "by"
radical 衤components ⿰衤皮
Appears in 1448 verses
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