背 bèi

1. bèi noun back [of the body]
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '背' 1, p. 13; Unihan '背')
2. bèi noun back side
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '背' 2, p. 13; Unihan '背')
3. bèi noun north side
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '背' 3, p. 13)
4. bèi verb turn one's back on
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '背' bwojH 1, p. 13)
5. bèi verb depart from
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '背' bwojH ab, p. 13)
6. bèi verb recite from memory
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '背' bwojH 2, p. 13)
7. bēi verb carry on the back
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '背' bēi 1, p. 13)
8. bèi adjective behind; secret
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '背' 4, p. 13; Unihan '背')
9. bèi verb to betray
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '背' bwojH 1a, p. 13; Unihan '背')

Contained in

• 背叛 to betray; to forsake; to rebel
• 面朝黄土背朝天(面朝黃土背朝天) face to the ground, back to the sky
• 背脊 the back of the human body
• 敲背 back-knocking massage
• 背对背(背對背) back to back
• 露背 halterneck; backless (garment)
• 灰背椋鸟(灰背椋鳥) white-shouldered starling (Sturnia sinensis)
• 棕背雪雀 Blanford's snowfinch (Pyrgilauda blanfordi)
• 灰背鸥(灰背鷗) slaty-backed gull (Larus schistisagus)
• 转背(轉背) to turn one's back; to turn around; fig. change in a very short time
• 倒背如流 to know by heart (so well that you can recite it backwards)
• 靠背椅 high-back chair
• 背板 panel; back panel
• 敲小背 to be masturbated by a prostitute
• 背心 a sleeveless garment
• 背黑锅(背黑鍋) to be made a scapegoat; to be unjustly blamed
• 弃约背盟(棄約背盟) to abrogate an agreement; to break one's oath
• 背夹电池(背夾電池) battery case (for a phone)
• 马背(馬背) horseback
• 背花 beating [as a punishment] ; decorations on the back of a gun or other weapon
• 灰背燕尾 slaty-backed forktail (Enicurus schistaceus)
• 背地风(背地風) behind somebody's back; privately; on the sly
• 背景音乐(背景音樂) background music (BGM); soundtrack; musical setting
• 驼背鲸(駝背鯨) humpback whale
• 金背三趾啄木鸟(金背三趾啄木鳥) common flameback (Dinopium javanense)
• 倒背手 with one's hands behind one's back
• 背城借一 to make a last-ditch stand before the city wall; to fight to the last ditch
• 背包游(背包遊) backpacking
• 背水一战(背水一戰) fight with one's back to the river; to fight to win or die
• 背运(背運) bad luck; unlucky
• 大金背啄木鸟(大金背啄木鳥) greater flameback (Chrysocolaptes lucidus)
• 背骨 spine
• 后背(後背) the back ; the back part of sth
• 走背字 to have bad luck
• 背信弃义(背信棄義) breaking faith and abandoning right; to betray; treachery; perfidy
• 椅背 the back of a chair
• 捐背 to die
• 暗绿背鸬鹚(暗綠背鸕鶿) Japanese cormorant (Phalacrocorax capillatus)
• 斑背噪鹛(斑背噪鶥) barred laughing thrush (Garrulax lunulatus)
• 走背字儿(走背字兒) to have bad luck
• 灰背鸫(灰背鶇) grey-backed thrush (Turdus hortulorum)
• 背信 to break faith
• 背光 backlight
• 红背蜘蛛(紅背蜘蛛) redback spider
• 暗背雨燕 dark-rumped swift (Apus acuticauda)
• 弃背(棄背) to die ; to abandon
• 灰背伯劳(灰背伯勞) grey-backed shrike (Lanius tephronotus)
• 历史背景(歷史背景) historical background

Also contained in

背影 、 背杀 、 仑背乡

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Truncated for common words

• 卷21　志第16 天文下 Volume 21 Treatises 16: Astronomy 3 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 34
• 卷三十二 志第八 曆二 Volume 32 Treatises 8: Calendar 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 24
• 卷105之一 天象志一之一 Volume 105a Treatise 1: Celestial Phenomena 1 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 20
• 第四十三回 Chapter 43 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 14
• 卷三十三 志第九 曆三 Volume 33 Treatises 9: Calendar 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 14
• 卷十二 志第二 天文中 Volume 12 Treatises 2: Astronomy Part Two Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 14
• 卷六十七 志第四十三 輿服三 Volume 67 Treatises 43: Carriages and Clothing 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 13
• 卷四十一　志第二十二:　儀衞上 常朝儀衛內外立仗、常行儀衛行仗 法駕黃麾仗 Volume 41 Treatises 22: Ceremonial Guards 1 - Inner and Outer Armed Guards of Honor in Regular Court Assemblies; Marching Armed Guards; Armed Imperial Command Carriage History of Jin 金史 — count: 11
• 卷三十四 韓彭英盧吳傳 Volume 34: Han, Peng, Ying, Lu and Wu Book of Han 漢書 — count: 11
• 卷三十三 Scroll 33 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 10

Collocations

• 背盟 (背盟) 背盟而欺大國 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 6
• 背法 (背法) 非背法專制無以為威 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 南面第十八 Chapter 18: Facing South — count: 5
• 右背 (右背) 而右背高 — Art of War 孫子兵法, 孫子兵法 The Art of War by Sunzi — count: 3
• 背憎 (背憎) 噂沓背憎 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧節南山之什‧十月之交 Minor odes of the kingdom - Jie Nan Shan Zhi Shen - Shi Yue Zhi Jiao — count: 3
• 沓背 (沓背) 噂沓背憎 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧節南山之什‧十月之交 Minor odes of the kingdom - Jie Nan Shan Zhi Shen - Shi Yue Zhi Jiao — count: 3
• 背秦 (背秦) 已又背秦 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 存韓第二 Chapter 2: The Preservation of State of Han — count: 2
• 背晋 (背晉) 秦伯歸而背晉成 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 2
• 背阳 (背陽) 西南為背陽之維 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷三　天文訓 Chapter 3: Celestial Phenomena — count: 2
• 背师 (背師) 既往背師保之訓 — Book of Documents 尚書, 商書 太甲中 Shang Shu - Tai Jia II — count: 2
• 背城邑 (背城邑) 背城邑多者 — Art of War 孫子兵法, 孫子兵法 The Art of War by Sunzi — count: 2