被套
bèi tào
Pinyin
Definition
被套
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- quilt cover
- to have money stuck (in stocks, real estate etc)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to cover
- 2 to encase
- 3 cover
- 4 sheath
- 5 to overlap
- 6 to interleave
- 7 to model after
- 8 to copy
- 9 formula
- 10 harness
- 11 loop of rope
- 12 (fig.) to fish for
- 13 to obtain slyly
- 14 classifier for sets, collections
- 15 bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names)
- 16 tau (Greek letter Ττ)
- 1 quilt
- 2 by
- 3 (indicates passive-voice clauses)
- 4 (literary) to cover
- 5 to meet with
- 6 (coll.) (since c. 2009) used before a verb that does not accurately represent what actually happened, to describe with black humor how sb or sth was dealt with by the authorities (as in 被自殺|被自杀[bèi zì shā])
- 1 outfit or suit (of clothes)
- 2 set of coordinated items
- 3 kit
- 1 set meal
- 2 product or service package (e.g. for a cell phone subscription)
Idioms (3)
一年被蛇咬十年怕井绳
- 1 bitten by a snake in one year, fears the well rope for ten years (idiom); once bitten twice shy
一朝被蛇咬,十年怕井绳
- 1 once bitten by a snake, ten years in fear of a well rope
- 2 once bitten, twice shy (idiom)
聪明反被聪明误
- 1 a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity (idiom); cleverness may overreach itself
- 2 too smart for one's own good