贝
bèiBèi HSK4

sea shell

贝 (貝) bèi frequency
currency abbreviation
ancient currency made from cowrie shells

我们在博物馆里看到了几枚古代作为货币使用的贝。

wǒ​men zài bó​wù​guǎn lǐ kàn​dào le jǐ méi gǔ​dài zuò​wéi huò​bì shǐ​yòng de bèi.

We saw several shells used as currency in ancient times at the museum.

shellfish noun
cowrie or any of various types of mollusks with shells

这种贝生活在深海里。

zhè zhǒng bèi shēng​huó zài shēn​hǎi lǐ.

This type of shellfish lives in the deep sea.

贝 (貝) Bèi
Bei proper name
surname Bei

贝先生是这家公司的经理。

Bèi xiān​sheng shì zhè jiā gōng​sī de jīng​lǐ.

Mr. Bei is the manager of this company.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,133rd most common 127.5 per million
Movie subtitles
395th most common 375.6 per million appears in 63% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
17.7 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
24.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Traditional
貝
Strokes
4
Unicode
U+8D1D

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