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

• 剥采比(剝採比) stripping-to-ore ratio; stripping ratio
• 比手划脚(比手劃腳) to gesticulate; to make lively gestures (while talking)
• 本那比市 Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
• 不比 unlike
• 比武 martial arts competition; tournament; to compete in a contest
• 瓦哈比派 Wahhabism
• 东加勒比元(東加勒比元) East Caribbean dollar
• 比方说(比方說) for example; for instance
• 等比 geometric
• 赞比亚克瓦查(贊比亞剋瓦查) Zambian Kwacha
• 比亚(比亞) Bia
• 连比(連比) compound ratio
• 等比数列(等比數列) geometric progression
• 比佛利山 Beverly Hills
• 比例 proportion; scale
• 伊比利亚(伊比利亞) Iberia; the Iberian peninsula
• 正比例 direct proportionality
• 比较分析(比較分析) comparative analysis
• 压缩比(壓縮比) compression ratio
• 哥伦比亚比索(哥倫比亞比索) Colombian peso
• 寿比南山(壽比南山) Live as long as the Zhongnan Mountains!; Long may you live!
• 巴基斯坦卢比(巴基斯坦盧比) Pakistani rupee
• 追比 to flog; to cane (as punishment)
• 比较心理学(比較心理學) comparative psychology
• 墨西哥比索(墨西哥比索) Mexican peso
• 阿比 servile ; a grebe ; Abby; Abigail
• 比肩随踵(比肩隨踵) shoulder-to-shoulder, following heel-to-heel
• 贾斯汀·比伯(賈斯汀·比伯) Justin Bieber
• 般雀比拉多 Pontius Pilate (in the Biblical passion story)
• 共模抑制比 common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR)
• 货比三家(貨比三家) to comparison shop ; comparison shopping
• 毛里求斯卢比(毛裡求斯盧比) Mauritian rupee
• 瓦哈比教派 Wahhabism (a conservative sect of Islam)
• 比邻(比鄰) neighbor; next-door neighbor; near; next to
• 比比皆然 found everywhere
• 成反比 to vary inversely; inversely proportional to

Also contained in

排比 、 比才 、 额比河 、 密西西比 、 冈比亚 、 底比斯 、 比亚韦斯托克 、 达罗比吒国 、 汉谟拉比 、 纳米比亚 、 英属哥伦比亚大学 、 汤恩比 、 计算机比喻 、 历史比较法 、 无比法

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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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 比物 (比物) 比物四驪 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧南有嘉魚之什‧六月 Minor odes of the kingdom - Nan You Jia Yu Zhi Shen - Liu Yue — count: 3
• 协比 (協比) 協比讒言予一人 — Book of Documents 尚書, 商書 盤庚下 Shang Shu - Pan Geng III — count: 3