倍 (bèi)
times/-fold/double
How 倍 is written
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 亻 — human
- Traditional
- 倍
- Simplified
- 倍 (unchanged)
Components
- 亻 human
- 立 stand erect
- 口 mouth
Common words using 倍
- 加倍 jiābèi
- to double (output); to redouble (efforts)
- 事半功倍 shìbàngōngbèi
- half the work, twice the effect (idiom); the right approach saves effort and leads to better results; a stitch in time saves nine
- 倍兒 bèir
- very; much (Beijing dialect)
- 倍增 bèizēng
- to double; to redouble; to increase many times over
- 倍感 bèigǎn
- to feel even more; to be extremely (sad, lonely, delighted etc)
- 事倍功半 shìbèigōngbàn
- twice the effort for half the result
- 二倍體 èrbèitǐ
- diploid (in cell biology)
- 倍數 bèishù
- multiple; multiplier; factor
- 多倍體 duōbèitǐ
- polyploid (multiple chromosomes)
- 幾倍 jǐbèi
- several times (bigger); double, treble, quadruple etc
- 精神百倍 jīngshénbǎibèi
- lit. vitality a hundredfold (idiom); refreshed; one's vigor thoroughly restored
- 雙倍 shuāngbèi
- twofold; double
倍 in a sentence
這裡的房價是十年前的兩倍。
Zhèlǐ de fángjià shì shí nián qián de liǎng bèi.
“Housing prices here are double what they were ten years ago.”
How common is 倍?
倍 is the 1,390th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 93.7% of all running text.
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