狈 — Chinese character
狈
bèi
a legendary wolf; distressed, wretched
- Pinyin
- bèi
- Radical
- 94 ⽝ (Dog)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 犭 贝
- Formation
- pictophonetic — dog; meaning component 犭; sound component 贝
- Traditional
- 狽
Common words with 狈
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 狼狈 (狼狽) | láng bèi | in a difficult situation; to cut a sorry figure |
| 狼狈为奸 (狼狽為奸) | láng bèi wéi jiān | villains collude together (idiom); to work hand in glove with sb (to nefarious ends) |
| 狼狈不堪 (狼狽不堪) | láng bèi bù kān | battered and exhausted; stuck in a dilemma |
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.