被 (bèi) means By (meet with - be - suffer - quilt). Below are 24 of the 130 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
他 被 诊断为感冒。
Tā bèi zhěnduàn wéi gǎnmào.
He was diagnosed with a cold.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 诊断
他 被 指控为间谍。
Tā bèi zhǐkòng wéi jiàndié.
He was accused of being a spy.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 间谍
不要 被 情绪支配。
Bú yào bèi qíngxù zhīpèi.
Do not let your emotions control you.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 支配
他 被 老板骂了一顿。
Tā bèi lǎobǎn mà le yí dùn.
He got a telling-off from the boss.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 骂
他的申请 被 批准了。
Tā de shēnqǐng bèi pīzhǔn le.
His application was approved.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 批准
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From the graded readers
我把可能 被 问到的问题都写了下来。
wǒ bǎ kěnéng bèi wèn dào de / dì wèntí dōu xiěle xialai.
I'd written down every question I might be asked.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Job Interview
我的手 被 地上的小石头划破了，很疼。
wǒ de(possessive) shǒu bèi dìshàng de / dì xiǎo shítou huà / huá pò le / liǎo / liào, hěn téng.
My hands were scraped by the small stones on the ground and it hurt.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Learning to Ride a Bike
也许他是对的。可是有些东西 被 扔掉以后，就再也找不回来了。
yěxǔ tā shì duì de / dì. kěshì yǒuxiē dōngxī bèi rēngdiào yǐhòu, jiù zài yě zhǎo bù huílai.
Maybe he's right. But some things, once thrown away, can never be got back.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Moving House
后来有一天，另一个朋友告诉我：那天小林的手机 被 弟弟拿去玩了。
hòulái yǒu yī tiān, lìngyī gè péngyou gàosu wǒ: nà / nèi tiān xiǎo lín de / dì shǒujī bèi dìdi ná qù wán / wàn le / liǎo / liào.
Then one day another friend told me that Xiaolin's phone had been taken by her younger brother that day.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding
From the grammar library
被 appears in 130 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 被
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 被
How is 被 used in a sentence?
This page shows 130 sentences using 被 (bèi, "By (meet with - be - suffer - quilt)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 被 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 被 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 被 an HSK word?
Yes — 被 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 被?
The dictionary page for 被 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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