被

HSK 3#54 by frequencyradical 衤

bèi["p","g","d"]

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); quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example)

Examples

您被骗了。

You've been had.

别被杀了。

Don't get yourself killed.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.