比 bì

1. bì verb to associate with; be near
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 亲近 (Guoyu '比' bì v 1)
2. bǐ verb to compare; to contrast
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Comparison
   Notes: For example, 我比你岁数大点 'I am a little older than you.' (Lao She, 2003, p. 174; Guoyu '比' v 1; Unihan '比')
3. bǐ preposition used for comparison
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
   Notes: A comparative preposition (Guoyu '比' prep; Sun 2006, loc. 1743)
4. bǐ radical Kangxi radical 81
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
   Notes: (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7; Guoyu '比' bǐ n 4)
5. bǐ adverb by the time that; when
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: 比 indicates a temporal sequence in this sense in Literary Chinese (Pulleyblank 1995, p. 159). For example, 比其反也 'on his return' (Mengzi: 2.6/10/17, translation by Legge)
6. bǐ verb to gesture (with hands)
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '比' bǐ v 4)
7. bǐ verb to make an analogy
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '比' bǐ v 5)
8. bǐ noun an analogy
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 譬喻 (Guoyu '比' bǐ n 1)
9. bǐ noun an example
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 事例 (Guoyu '比' bǐ n 2)

Contained in

• 毛里求斯卢比(毛裡求斯盧比) Mauritian rupee
• 信噪比 signal-to-noise ratio
• 腓立比 Philip / Philippi
• 东加勒比元(東加勒比元) East Caribbean dollar
• 莫桑比克梅蒂卡尔(莫桑比克梅蒂卡爾) Mozambique metical
• 尚比亚(尚比亞) Zambia
• 出席表决比例(出席表決比例) proportion of those present and voting
• 本益比 P⁄ E ratio (price-to-earnings ratio)
• 本那比市 Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
• 比目鱼(比目魚) flatfish; flounder
• 比尔(比爾) Bill
• 比较心理学(比較心理學) comparative psychology
• 比湿(比濕) specific humidity
• 瓦萨比(瓦薩比) wasabi
• 加勒比国家联盟(加勒比國家聯盟) Association of Caribbean States
• 比特犬 pit bull
• 公设比(公設比) shared-facilities ratio (expressed as a percentage of the total floor space of a building)
• 比色分析 colorimetric analysis
• 瘦死的骆驼比马大(瘦死的駱駝比馬大) even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse; even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people
• 玻利维亚比索(玻利維亞比索) boliviano
• 评比(評比) to evaluate by comparison
• 过程比终点更美(過程比終點更美) The process is more beautiful than the outcome. / It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
• 焦比 focal ratio; f-stop; f-number
• 今非昔比 things are very different now ; times have changed
• 比萨饼(比薩餅) pizza
• 加勒比 Caribbean
• 奇丑无比(奇醜無比) extremely ugly; incomparably hideous
• 等比 geometric
• 连比(連比) compound ratio
• 反比 inversely proportional; inverse ratio
• 类比策略(類比策略) analogy strategies
• 对比(對比) to contrast; to balance ; a ratio
• 比杆赛(比桿賽) stroke play (golf)
• 比较美学(比較美學) comparitive aesthetics
• 巴比伦(巴比倫) Babylon; Babylonia
• 路上比终点更有意义(路上比終點更有意義) The road means more than the destination. / It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
• 攀比 to make invidious comparisons; to compete with; to emulate
• 比捕 to set a time limit for the arrest of a criminal
• 赞比亚克瓦查(贊比亞剋瓦查) Zambian Kwacha
• 波美比重计(波美比重計) Baume hydrometer

Also contained in

比勒陀利亚 、 契沙比克湾 、 科比·布莱恩特 、 英属哥伦比亚 、 比特 、 史高比耶 、 英属哥伦比亚大学 、 比利时 、 内比都 、 比哈尔 、 汉谟拉比

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• 卷三十 魏書三十 烏丸鮮卑東夷傳 Volume 30: Book of Wei 30 - Biographies of the Wuhuan, Xianbei, and Dongyi Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 39
• 卷八十四　志第三十四: 　選舉四 Volume 84 Treatises 37: Selection of Officials 4 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 34
• 第二十五 百官二 太常 光祿勳 衛尉 太僕 廷尉 大鴻臚 Volume 115: Officials Part Two Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 34
• 卷十九 百官公卿表 Volume 19: Table of nobility ranks and government offices Book of Han 漢書 — count: 33
• 地官司徒 第二 2. Office of Earth and Minster of Education and Social Welfare Rites of Zhou 周禮 — count: 31
• 卷三　天文訓 Chapter 3: Celestial Phenomena Huainanzi 淮南子 — count: 27
• 昭公 Lord Zhao The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 26
• 《高祖功臣侯者年表》 Yearly Table of the Officials who became Marquises in the Time of Gaozu Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 25
• 卷七十一 志第二十四 律曆四 Volume 71 Treatises 24: Measures and Calendar 4 History of Song 宋史 — count: 24
• 卷16　志第11 律曆上 Volume 16 Treatises 11: Measures and the Calendar 1 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 21

Collocations

• 公子比 (公子比) 公子比出奔晉 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 11
• 比蒲 (比蒲) 大蒐于比蒲 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 10
• 大比 (大比) 則大比 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 地官司徒 第二 2. Office of Earth and Minster of Education and Social Welfare — count: 9
• 合比 (合比) 宋華合比 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 7
• 伯比 (伯比) 鬬伯比言于楚子曰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 桓公 Lord Huan — count: 7
• 比曰 (比曰) 熊率且比曰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 桓公 Lord Huan — count: 6
• 比出奔 (比出奔) 公子比出奔晉 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 5
• 比三 (比三) 以比三凶 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 4
• 皋比 (皋比) 蒙皋比而先犯之 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 3
• 曰比 (曰比) 三曰比 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 序 Preface — count: 3