贝
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cowrie; shellfish; currency (archaic)
Formation & memory
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How to remember it
shellfish · Heisig RSH #52
目 eye + animal legs — as a component also called: shellfish, shells, oyster, clam
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 贝
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 贝尔法斯特 | Belfast, capital of Northern Ireland | |
| 马尔贝克 | Malbec (grape type) | |
| 亚的斯亚贝巴 | Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia | |
| 贝斯手 | bassist; bass player | |
| 电贝斯 | electric bass (guitar) | |
| 贝克尔 | Baker or Becker (name) | |
| 阿卡贝拉 | (loanword) a cappella | |
| 贝里斯 | Belize (Tw) | |
| 哈贝马斯 | Jürgen Habermas (1929-), German social philosopher | |
| 阿贝尔 | Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829), Norwegian mathematician; (math.) abelian | |
| 非阿贝尔 | (math.) non-abelian | |
| 巴贝多 | Barbados, Caribbean island (Tw) | |
| 贝多罗树 | Talipot palm (Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as writing media | |
| 阿迪斯阿贝巴 | Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia (Tw) | |
| 贝内特 | (surname) Bennett | |
| 贝拉米 | Bellamy | |
| 贝加尔湖 | Lake Baikal, Russia | |
| 巴贝虫病 | (medicine) babesiosis | |
| 贝尔格莱德 | Belgrade, capital of Serbia | |
| 贝克勒尔 | becquerel (unit of radioactivity, symbol Bq); abbr. to 貝克|贝克[bei4 ke4] |
Sound family
These characters use 贝 as their sound component — compare how they read.