IDENTITY
杯bēicup; glass
HSK 1Top 500
CORE MEANING
cup; glass
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.cup; glassHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 木tree radical (mù)
- strokes
- 8
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰木不
- wood
- gives the sound bēi (historical)
USAGE
Common words
杯子bēizicup
一杯yì bēia cup of
茶杯chábēiteacup
Graded examples
桌上有一杯茶。Zhuō shang yǒu yì bēi chá.HSK2
There is a cup of tea on the table.
RELATIONS
In these chengyu
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
Wood (木) shaped into a drinking bowl — the cup. (From 盃.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #500
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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