bèi
被 (bèi) is a Chinese word meaning “quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune)”.
Meanings
- 1quilt
- 2to cover (with)
- 3(literary) to suffer (a misfortune)
- 4used 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)
- 5(since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅遊|被旅游[bei4 lu : 3 you2] to "go on a trip")
- Part of speech
- preposition