| 被 | bèi | quilt; by; (indicates passive-voice clauses); (literary) to cover; to meet with |
| 被迫 | bèi pò | be compelled; be forced |
| 被告 | bèi gào | defendant |
| 被告人 | bèi gào rén | defendant (in legal case) |
| 被动 | bèi dòng | passive |
| 被捕 | bèi bǔ | to be arrested; under arrest |
| 被除数 | bèi chú shù | dividend |
| 被子 | bèi zi | quilt; CL:床 |
| 被害人 | bèi hài rén | victim |
| 棉被 | mián bèi | comforter; quilt; CL:条,面 |
| 植被 | zhí bèi | vegetation; plant cover |
| 被褥 | bèi rù | bedding; bedclothes |
| 被面 | bèi miàn | quilt |
| 被单 | bèi dān | (bed) sheet; envelope for a padded coverlet; CL:床 |
| 花被 | huā bèi | perianth (common term for calyx and corolla); border and protecting envelope of a flower |
| 被子植物 | bèi zǐ zhí wù | angiosperm (flowering plants with seed contained in a fruit) |
一年被蛇咬十年怕
井绳 | yī nián bèi shé yǎo shí nián pà jǐng shéng | bitten by a snake in one year, fears the well rope for ten years (idiom); once bitten twice shy |
一朝被蛇咬，
十年怕井绳 | yī zhāo bèi shé yǎo ,
shí nián pà jǐng shéng | once bitten by a snake, ten years in fear of a well rope; once bitten, twice shy (idiom) |
| 包被 | bāo bèi | peridium (envelope or coat of fungi, e.g. puffballs) |
| 原被告 | yuán bèi gào | plaintiff and defendant; prosecution and defense (lawyers) |
| 垫被 | diàn bèi | mattress |
| 聪明反被聪明误 | cōng míng fǎn bèi cōng míng wù | a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity (idiom); cleverness may overreach itself; too smart for one's own good |
| 被上诉人 | bèi shàng sù rén | appellee (side that won in trial court, whose victory is being appealed by losing side) |
| 被侵害 | bèi qīn hài | stricken |
| 被优化掉 | bèi yōu huà diào | lit. to be optimized away; to be fired; to be the victim of downsizing |
| 被剥削者 | bèi bō xuē zhě | person suffering exploitation; the workers in Marxist theory |
| 被动免疫 | bèi dòng miǎn yì | passive immunity |
| 被动吸烟 | bèi dòng xī yān | second-hand smoking; passive smoking |
| 被和谐 | bèi hé xié | to be "harmonized" i.e. censored |
| 被套 | bèi tào | quilt cover; to have money stuck (in stocks, real estate etc) |
| 被子植物门 | bèi zǐ zhí wù mén | angiospermae (phylum of flowering plants with seed contained in a fruit) |
| 被害者 | bèi hài zhě | victim (of a wounding or murder) |
| 被控 | bèi kòng | the accused (in a trial) |
| 被毛 | bèi máo | coat (of an animal) |
| 被没收 | bèi mò shōu | forfeit |
| 被爆者 | bèi bào zhě | hibakusha |
| 被疑者 | bèi yí zhě | suspect (in criminal investigation) |
| 被禁 | bèi jìn | forbidden; proscribed |
| 被禁止 | bèi jìn zhǐ | forbidden |
| 被窝 | bèi wō | traditional sleeping pad (quilt wrapped around the body as a tube) |
| 被窝儿 | bèi wōr | erhua variant of 被窝, traditional sleeping pad (quilt wrapped around the body as a tube) |
| 被绑 | bèi bǎng | kidnap victim; kidnapped (person) |
| 被卧 | bèi wo | quilt; cover |
| 被自杀 | bèi zì shā | a death claimed to be a suicide by the authorities |
| 被视为 | bèi shì wéi | to be viewed as; to be seen as; to be considered to be; to be deemed |
| 被访者 | bèi fǎng zhě | respondent (in a survey, questionnaire, study etc) |
| 被译 | bèi yì | translated |
| 被誉为 | bèi yù wéi | to be regarded as; to be known as; to be famed as; to be reputed to be |
