IDENTITY
贵guìexpensive; honorable
HSK 1Top 720
CORE MEANING
expensive; honorable
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.expensiveHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 贝shell radical (bèi)
- strokes
- 9
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱𠀐贝
- shells; money
- part of the structure
USAGE
Common words
很贵hěn guìvery expensive
贵姓guìxìngyour surname (polite)
Graded examples
这件衣服不太贵。Zhè jiàn yīfu bú tài guì.HSK2
This piece of clothing is not too expensive.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 遗
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
Shell money (贝) piled high — costly, valued. (Shells were ancient money.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #720
- 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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