被
bèi HSK3

quilt, cover

被 bèi
by preposition
a preposition used to indicate the passive voice, identifying the agent of the action

苹果被小王吃掉了。

píng​guǒ bèi xiǎo Wáng chī​diào le.

The apple was eaten by Xiao Wang.

cover or suffer preposition
to cover or spread over; (literary) to suffer or be subjected to a misfortune

他的德泽被于后世。

tā de dé​zé bèi yú hòu​shì.

His benevolence and influence extended to future generations.

forced to preposition
a sarcastic or jocular usage indicating that the following action was involuntary or falsely claimed

在统计数据中，很多失业者被就业了。

zài tǒng​jì shù​jù zhōng, hěn​duō shī​yè​zhě bèi jiù​yè le.

In the statistics, many unemployed people were counted as employed.

quilt noun
a quilt, comforter, or bed covering

冬天盖这床厚被很暖和。

dōng​tiān gài zhè chuáng hòu bèi hěn nuǎn​huo.

Sleeping under this thick quilt is very warm in winter.

Frequency
Character
Written text
154th most common 1389.7 per million
Movie subtitles
118th most common 1497.0 per million appears in 99% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1958.3 per million appears in 99% of films
Written text
1616.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+88AB

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)