备
bèi HSK1

prepare

备 (備) bèi
prepare verb
to prepare or equip, typically used as a bound form in compound words

家里应该常备一些常用的感冒药。

jiā lǐ yīng​gāi cháng bèi yī​xiē cháng​yòng de gǎn​mào​yào.

The home should always have some common cold medicines on hand.

fully verb
completely, thoroughly, or in every way (literary)

这道菜色香味俱备，非常诱人。

zhè dào cài​sè xiāng​wèi jù bèi, fēi​cháng yòu​rén.

This dish has excellent color, aroma, and taste, making it very tempting.

Cross-References

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
397th most common 553.5 per million
Movie subtitles
284th most common 590.7 per million appears in 91% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
11.2 per million appears in 5% of films
Written text
25.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Traditional
備
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+5907

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