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

• 背山 with back to the mountain (favored location)
• 吊带背心(吊帶背心) camisole
• 暗绿背鸬鹚(暗綠背鸕鶿) Japanese cormorant (Phalacrocorax capillatus)
• 面朝黄土背朝天(面朝黃土背朝天) face to the ground, back to the sky
• 白背兀鹫(白背兀鷲) white-rumped vulture (Gyps bengalensis)
• 金背三趾啄木鸟(金背三趾啄木鳥) common flameback (Dinopium javanense)
• 黑背燕尾 black-backed forktail (Enicurus immaculatus)
• 后背(後背) the back ; the back part of sth
• 搭背 harness pad (on draught animal)
• 背骨 spine
• 背地风(背地風) behind somebody's back; privately; on the sly
• 点子背(點子背) to have a stroke of bad luck
• 背井离乡(背井離鄉) to leave one's native place, especially against one's will
• 捐背 to die
• 蓝背八色鸫(藍背八色鶇) blue-rumped pitta (Hydrornis soror)
• 倒背手儿(倒背手兒) with one's hands behind one's back
• 敲中背 to receive oral sex from a prostitute
• 背水一战(背水一戰) fight with one's back to the river; to fight to win or die
• 芒刺在背 feeling brambles and thorns in one's back; uneasy and nervous; to be on pins and needles
• 背叛 to betray; to forsake; to rebel
• 绿背林鹟(綠背林鶲) fulvous-chested jungle flycatcher (Rhinomyias olivacea)
• 背地 secretly; in private; behind someone's back
• 勾肩搭背 arms around each other's shoulders
• 绿背姬鹟(綠背姬鶲) green-backed flycatcher (Ficedula elisae)
• 驼背(駝背) hunchbacked; stooping; hunchback
• 光背地鸫(光背地鶇) plain-backed thrush (Zoothera mollissima)
• 大金背啄木鸟(大金背啄木鳥) greater flameback (Chrysocolaptes lucidus)
• 背包 backpack; knapsack; rucksack; infantry pack; field pack; blanket roll
• 斑背噪鹛(斑背噪鶥) barred laughing thrush (Garrulax lunulatus)
• 背信 to break faith
• 栗背奇鹛(栗背奇鶥) rufous-backed sibia (Heterophasia annectans)
• 敲大背 to have sex with a prostitute
• 背负(背負) to bear; to carry on one's back; to shoulder
• 驼背鲸(駝背鯨) humpback whale
• 灰背隼 merlin (Falco columbarius)
• 背离(背離) to depart from; to deviate from; deviation
• 走背字儿(走背字兒) to have bad luck
• 手心手背都是肉 both the palm and the back of the hand are made of flesh; to both be of equal importance
• 紫背苇鳽(紫背葦鳽) von Schrenck's bittern (Ixobrychus eurhythmus)
• 背阔肌(背闊肌) latissimus dorsi muscle (back of the chest)
• 背城借一 to make a last-ditch stand before the city wall; to fight to the last ditch
• 背后(背後) behind; at the back; in the rear ; background
• 绿背山雀(綠背山雀) green-backed tit (Parus monticolus)
• 离乡背井(離鄉背井) to leave one's homeplace (to find work, flee disaster etc)
• 鳌背负山(鰲背負山) debt as heavy as a mountain on a turtle's back
• 背约(背約) to break an agreement; to go back on one's word; to fail to keep one's promise
• 背弃(背棄) abandon; desert; renounce
• 脚背(腳背) instep (upper surface of the foot)
• 背包游(背包遊) backpacking

Also contained in

仑背乡 、 背影

Word is mentioned most frequently in

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
• 卷十二 志第二 天文中 Volume 12 Treatises 2: Astronomy Part Two Book of Jin 晉書 — 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
• 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
• 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
• 肩背 (肩背) 而失其肩背 — Mencius 孟子, 告子上 Gaozi I — count: 2
• 今背 (今背) 今背殯而出會 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 2
• 背柯 (背柯) 言公之不背柯陵之盟也 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — 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