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

• 比肩继踵(比肩繼踵) shoulder-to-shoulder, heel-to-heel; many people in a chaotic crowd
• 无比(無比) incomparable; unparalleled
• 大比目鱼(大比目魚) halibut
• 比喻 a simile; a metaphor; an analogy; a figure of speech ; to compare two things
• 比色分析 colorimetric analysis
• 朋比为奸(朋比為奸) to conspire; to gang up
• 比较优势(比較優勢) comparative advantage
• 瓦哈比教派 Wahhabism (a conservative sect of Islam)
• 埃塞俄比亚比尔(埃塞俄比亞比爾) Ethiopian birr
• 智利比索 Chilean peso
• 平方成反比 proportional to inverse square
• 比肩而立 to stand shoulder-to-shoulder
• 比丘尼 bhiksuni; Buddhist nun
• 选美比赛(選美比賽) beauty contest
• 比画(比畫) to gesture; to gesticulate
• 比肩皆是 found everywhere
• 日比谷公园(日比谷公園) Hibiya Park in central Tokyo
• 异戊巴比妥(異戊巴比妥) amobarbital
• 类比(類比) analogy ; analog
• 体积百分比(體積百分比) percentage by volume
• 性别比(性別比) sex ratio
• 天涯若比邻(天涯若比鄰) far-flung realms as next door; close in spirit although far away
• 比作 to liken to; to compare to
• 阿根廷比索 Argentine peso
• 尼泊尔卢比(尼泊尔盧比) Nepalese rupee
• 比赛(比賽) competition; match ; to compete
• 方差比 variance ratio
• 毛里求斯卢比(毛裡求斯盧比) Mauritian rupee
• 比基尼岛(比基尼島) Bikini atoll, French nuclear test site in South Pacific
• 比索 peso
• 比利 Pelé
• 戊巴比妥钠(戊巴比妥鈉) pentasorbital sodium (a sedative)
• 莫桑比克梅蒂卡尔(莫桑比克梅蒂卡爾) Mozambique metical
• 同比 over the same period; year-on-year
• 利比亚第纳尔(利比亞第納爾) Libyan dinar
• 比较分析(比較分析) comparative analysis
• 比例尺 scale ; an engineer's scale
• 将心比心(將心比心) to have sympathy for

Also contained in

利比亚 、 历史比较法 、 密西西比 、 比哈尔 、 冈比亚 、 纳米比亚 、 威廉·莎士比亚 、 排比 、 比才 、 马丘比丘 、 几内亚比绍 、 计算机比喻 、 热比娅

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Truncated for common words

• 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
• 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
• 比德 (比德) 人無有比德 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 洪範 Zhou Shu - Great Plan — count: 3
• 比事 (比事) 比事臣我宗 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 多士 Zhou Shu - Numerous Officers — count: 3