悲
bēi HSK5

sorrow

悲 bēi
sad adjectivenoun
sad; grieving; sorrowful; melancholy
compassion noun
(bound form) compassion; pity; (Buddhism) the desire and effort to relieve the suffering of others (karuna)
surname
a Chinese surname

Cross-References

Antonym

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,166th most common 121.4 per million
Movie subtitles
1,111th most common 82.6 per million appears in 36% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.15 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
30.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+60B2

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