卑
bēi HSK7

humble, inferior

卑 bēi
humble adjective
(bound form) modest; respectful and submissive
lowly adjective
(bound form) low in physical position, altitude, or social status; inferior
mean
(bound form) low in character; base; despicable; vulgar
to look down on
(literary bound form) to treat as inferior; to despise or belittle
surname
a Chinese surname
to decline
(literary bound form) to weaken; to be in decline (of a dynasty or power)
to make lowly
(literary bound form) to make simple, humble, or low; to keep at a basic level (e.g. of living conditions)
crude
(literary bound form) simple; crude; low-quality (of housing or surroundings)

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,059th most common 34.0 per million
Movie subtitles
1,932nd most common 21.6 per million appears in 12% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.44 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
3.69 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+5351

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