bèi HSK7

a legendary animal with short forelegs which rode a wolf

bèi
[wolf-like beast]
(bound form) a legendary animal of the wolf family said to have short forelegs and to travel by clinging to a wolf; also used in the word 狼狈 láng​bèi to mean wretched or in a difficult position

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Frequency

Character
Written text
3,090th most common 8.72 per million
Movie subtitles
3,575th most common 1.28 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Written text
1.34 per million

Details

HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+72C8

Sources