倍 (bèi): (two, three etc) -fold, times (multiplier), double
倍 (bèi) is a Chinese character meaning “(two, three etc) -fold.” Classified as HSK Level 4 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 亻 (structural) and 咅 (structural). It ranks #1384 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Definitions
- (two, three etc) -fold
- times (multiplier)
- double
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 倍
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 倍感 | bèi gǎn | to feel even more (lonely etc) |
| 百倍noun | bǎi bèi | a hundredfold |
| 成倍 | chéng bèi | twofold |
| 事半功倍phrase | shì bàn gōng bèi | (idiom) to achieve twice the result with half the effort |
| 倍儿adverb | bèi r | (coll.) very |
| 倍数noun | bèi shù | multiple |
| 信心百倍 | xìn xīn bǎi bèi | brimming with confidence (idiom) |
| 单倍体noun | dān bèi tǐ | haploid (single chromosome) |
| 安倍proper-noun | ān bèi | Abe (Japanese surname) |
| 最小公倍数noun | zuì xiǎo gōng bèi shù | least common multiple |
| 放大倍数 | fàng dà bèi shù | magnifying power |
| 多倍体 | duō bèi tǐ | polyploid (multiple chromosomes) |
| 整数倍数 | zhěng shù bèi shù | integral multiple |
| 二倍体 | èr bèi tǐ | diploid (in cell biology) |
| 公倍数noun | gōng bèi shù | common multiple |
倍 appears in 42 compound words: 26 as the first character, 31 as the last, and 43 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 倍 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Example Sentences
今年的销售额是去年的两倍，增长非常迅速。
Jīnnián de xiāoshòu é shì qùnián de liǎng bèi, zēngzhǎng fēicháng xùnsù.
This year's sales are twice last year's, growing very rapidly.
台股金蛇年这7档规模翻倍增 吸金力道猛
tái gǔ jīn shé nián zhè 7 dàng guī mó fān bèi zēng xī jīn lì dào měng
The scale of these 7 gears in the Year of the Golden Snake of Taiwan stocks has doubled, and the gold absorption is fierce
...晚这扇“窗”,照见中国机器人产业“跑”出倍速
. . . wǎn zhè shān chuāng , zhào jiàn zhōng guó jī qì rén chǎn yè pǎo chū bèi sù
... China's Robotics Industry "Runs" at Multiple Speeds
超标近2000倍 日本石川县一处地下水检出高浓度有..
chāo biāo jìn bèi rì běn shí chuān xiàn yī chǔ dì xià shuǐ jiǎn chū gāo nóng dù yǒu . .
Groundwater in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, found to contain high concentrations of... Exceeding standards by nearly 2,000 times.
我的新年“特供”丨订单翻倍!小碗梨成春节假期“新宠..
wǒ de xīn nián tè gōng 丨 dìng shàn fān bèi ! xiǎo wǎn lí chéng chūn jié jiǎ qī xīn chǒng . .
My New Year's Special Offer丨Orders Double! Small Bowl Pears Become the New Favorite During the Spring Festival Holiday...
日本一处地下水有机氟化合物超标约2000倍
rì běn yī chǔ dì xià shuǐ yǒu jī 氟 huā gě wù chāo biāo yāo bèi
Organic fluorine compounds in groundwater at a location in Japan exceed standards by approximately 2,000 times.
亚洲的大小约四倍于欧洲。
Yàzhōu de dàxiǎo yuē sì bèi yú ōuzhōu.
Asia is roughly four times the size of Europe.
祖父的年龄比我大五倍。
Zǔfù de niánlíng bǐ wǒ dà wǔ bèi.
My grandfather is five times as old as I am.
他赚的薪水是我的两倍。
Tā zhuàn de xīnshuǐ shì wǒ de liǎngbèi.
He earns twice as much as me.
得克萨斯州约是日本的两倍大。
Dékèsàsīzhōu yuē shì Rìběn de liǎngbèi dà.
Texas is nearly twice as large as Japan.
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