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HSK
treasured object / treasure / darling / baby / cowry / good-for-nothing or queer character
HSK 4
shell (of a mollusk)
HSK 7-9
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  *贝* | 贝* | *贝
surname Bei
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *贝* | 贝* | *贝
cowrie / shellfish / currency (archaic)
Bell (person name)
Nobel (Prize)
Beckenham or Beckham (name) / David Beckham (1975-), British midfield footballer
the bulb of the fritillary (Fritillaria thunbergii)
decibel
Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829), Norwegian mathematician / (math.) abelian
"Becks", nickname of British footballer David Beckham (see 貝克漢姆|贝克汉姆)
copy / to copy (loanword)
Bayes (name) / Thomas Bayes (1702-1761), English mathematician and theologian
Baker or Becker (name)
shellfish / mollusks
Benin
Lake Baikal, Russia
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), German composer
Sichuan fritillary bulb (Bulbus fritillariae cirrhosae, used in TCM)
Belgrade, capital of Serbia
Campbell (name)
Chernobyl
scallop (genus Pecten)
Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, prime minister 1988-90 and 1993-96
conpoy; dried scallop (dried adductor muscle of a scallop)
Beirut, capital of Lebanon
Bennett (surname)
Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia
Silvio Berlusconi (1936-2023), Italian media magnate and right-wing politician, prime minister of Italy 1994-1995, 2001-2006, 2008-2011
mussel
Belmopan, capital of Belize
Bertelsmann, German media company
B&R Industrial Automation International Trade (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Robert Mugabe (1924-2019), Zimbabwean ZANU-PF politician, president of Zimbabwe 1987-2017
Halle Berry (1966-), US actress
Bes, a minor god of ancient Egypt
bass (loanword) / bass guitar
Beira, Mozambique
pattra palm tree (loan from Sanskrit, Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as paper substitute for Buddhist sutras
variant of 黑背
bagel (loanword)
Pompeii, ancient Roman town near Naples, Italy
PayPal (Internet payment and money transfer company)
beta (Greek letter Ββ)
pearly white teeth / cowry
Belfast, capital of Northern Ireland
pattra palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as paper substitute for Buddhist sutras
Beethoven's Ninth
the cylindrical adductor muscle of bivalve shellfish such as scallops
Ballycotton (Irish: Baile Choitín), village near Cork / Ballycotton, music band
nickname for Victoria Beckham
Pokémon or Pocket Monsters, popular Japanese video game, anime and manga
shell mound
(stationery) to laminate (Tw)
Farrer's scallop (Chlamys farreri), aka Chinese scallop
land snail
Hulunbuir, prefecture-level city in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region 內蒙古自治區|内蒙古自治区
Jürgen Habermas (1929-), German social philosopher
Nobel Prize in Literature
Halle Berry (1966-), US actress
bass (loanword)
Nobel Peace Prize
erhua variant of 寶貝|宝贝
Lübeck, Germany
Benin (Tw)
becquerel (unit of radioactivity, symbol Bq) / abbr. to 貝克|贝克
electric bass (guitar)
Sanskrit on Talipot palm leaves (idiom); Buddhist scripture
Malbec (grape type)
Pei Ieoh Ming or I.M. Pei (1917-2019), Chinese-American architect
Belize (Tw)
Bell Labs
Buir Lake of Inner Mongolia
precious darling (often refers to one's child); sweetheart
surname Fröbel or Froebel / Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel (1782-1852), German pedagogue
John Rabe (1882-1950), German who helped protect Chinese during the Nanking massacre period
a cappella (loanword)
rice cracker
kapok (Ceiba pentandra)
Kongsberg (city in Norway)
Barbados, Caribbean island (Tw)
(medicine) babesiosis
Nobel Prize in Physics
Bekaa Valley between Lebanon and Syria
(metallurgy) bainite; bainitic
Belmopan, capital of Belize (Tw)
pattra palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as paper substitute for Buddhist sutras
sutra written on leaves of pattra palm tree
Christian Bale (1974-), English actor
camembert cheese
Hulunbuir grasslands of Inner Mongolia
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 馬克·吐溫|马克·吐温
Habel, Haber or Hubbell (name) / Harbel (town in Liberia)
Campbell's dwarf hamster (Phodopus campbelli)
(loanword) tempeh
(of a child) apple of one's eye
(medicine) babesiosis
Obed (name)

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