bèi

Traditional: 贝

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Translation

shell, cowrie (bound morpheme)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 贝

Examples

You are my darling.

This little darling is so cute.

Sweetheart, don't cry.

shātānjiǎn

She is picking up shells on the beach.

hǎi

There are many beautiful shells by the sea.

贝 (bèi) once meant cowrie shell, an early form of money; today it mostly appears in 宝贝 (bǎobèi), darling or treasure.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 贝.

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This word is part of lesson 104.