被动 (bèidòng) means Passive. Below are 2 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
比赛一开始我们就很 被动 。
Bǐsài yì kāishǐ wǒmen jiù hěn bèidòng.
We were on the back foot from the very start of the match.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 被动
与其 被动 等待，不如主动争取。
Yǔqí bèidòng děngdài, bùrú zhǔdòng zhēngqǔ.
Rather than waiting passively, it is better to go after it yourself.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 被动
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How is 被动 used in a sentence?
This page shows 2 sentences using 被动 (bèidòng, "Passive"), 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.
Is 被动 an HSK word?
Yes — 被动 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.
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The dictionary page for 被动 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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