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被 — quilt; to cover; to suffer

quilt; to cover; to suffer; used to indicate passive voice

Pinyin
bèi
Strokes
10
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
required

How to write 被: 10 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. This character is on the HSK handwriting list, so the exam expects you to write it, not only recognise it.

被 — 10 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 被 in the HSK syllabus: 5

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 被bèiquilt; to cover; to sufferHSK 3
  2. 被子bèiziblanket; quiltHSK 5
  3. 被动bèidòngpassiveHSK 6
  4. 被迫bèipòto be compelled; to be forcedHSK 6
  5. 被告bèigàothe defendant; the accusedHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.