quilt / by / (indicates passive-voice clauses) / (literary) to cover / to meet with / (coll.) (since c. 2009) used before a verb that does not accurately represent what actually happened, to describe with black humor how sb or sth was dealt with by the authorities (as in 被自殺|被自杀[bei4 zi4 sha1])
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被 character breakdown

leather / skin / fur / CL:張|张[zhang1] / pico- (one trillionth) / naughty
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the left-radical form of Kangxi radical 145, 衣[yi1]
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Characters with 被 as component

被 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 被

vegetation / plant cover
a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity (idiom); cleverness may overreach itself / too smart for one's own good
comforter / quilt / CL:條|条[tiao2],面[mian4]
(law) judgement defaulter (person who has failed to fulfill obligations set forth in a written court judgement, such as paying compensation to sb, despite having the means to do so) / debt dodger
perianth (common term for calyx and corolla) / border and protecting envelope of a flower
bitten by a snake in one year, fears the well rope for ten years (idiom); once bitten twice shy
once bitten by a snake, ten years in fear of a well rope / once bitten, twice shy (idiom)
peridium (envelope or coat of fungi, e.g. puffballs)
plaintiff and defendant / prosecution and defense (lawyers)

Sentences with 被

tia̅n
tíng
we̅i
yán
bèi
ta̅
diu̅
jìn
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