卑 — Chinese character
卑
bēi
humble, low, inferior; to despise
- Pinyin
- bēi
- Radical
- 24 ⼗ (Ten)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 白 十
- Formation
- ideographic — A hand 又(altered) holding an empty shell 甲 (altered)
- Japanese
- 卑 as a kanji
Common words with 卑
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 卑鄙 | bēi bǐ | base; mean |
| 自卑 | zì bēi | to have low self-esteem; to abase oneself |
| 卑劣 | bēi liè | base; mean |
| 谦卑 (謙卑) | qiān bēi | humble |
| 卑微 | bēi wēi | lowly; humble |
| 卑贱 (卑賤) | bēi jiàn | lowly; mean and low |
| 阿尔卑斯 (阿爾卑斯) | ā ěr bēi sī | alps (mountain range) |
| 卑鄙无耻 (卑鄙無恥) | bēi bǐ wú chǐ | (idiom) shameless; despicable; devoid of integrity |
| 卑躬屈膝 | bēi gōng qū xī | to bow and bend the knee (idiom); fawning; bending and scraping to curry favor |
| 男尊女卑 | nán zūn nǚ bēi | to regard men as superior to women (idiom) |
| 尊卑 | zūn bēi | superior and subordinate; social ranking |
| 卑下 | bēi xià | base; low |
English words written with 卑
卑 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · Art of War 3 · Mencius 8 · Zhuangzi 14 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
- Analects 8.21
- Art of War 1.22
- Art of War 9.23
- Art of War 9.24
- Mencius 1B.7
- Mencius 2A.1
- Mencius 2A.9
- Mencius 3B.6
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.