HSK 6 · Nature

贝壳 bèiké “shell” in Chinese

Traditional 貝殼

What 贝壳 means

  1. shell
  2. seashell
  3. shell (of a mollusk)

How to say 贝壳

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale贝bèi4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale壳ké2nd tone, rising

贝壳 in a sentence

  1. 我在海边捡了个漂亮贝壳。

    Wǒ zài hǎibiān jiǎn le ge piàoliang bèiké.

    I picked up a pretty shell at the beach.

    Sentence #5911660 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 她在海边卖贝壳。

    Tā zài hǎibiān mài bèiké.

    She sells seashells by the seashore.

    Sentence #3068647 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 在我手里的是一个贝壳化石。

    Zài wǒ shǒulǐ de shì yí ge bèiké huàshí.

    What I’m holding is a fossilised seashell.

    Sentence #775393 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 贝壳 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 贝 (bèi) with each of its parts in a different colour
贝bèicowrie
  • 冂down box · jiōng
  • 人person · rén
The character 壳 (ké) with each of its parts in a different colour
壳késhell
  • 士scholar · shì
  • 冗excessive · rǒng

How to write 贝壳

贝 4 strokes · 壳 7 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

贝壳 (bèiké) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 贝壳 (bèiké). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 贝壳

Words with 贝

宝贝bǎobèi · baby

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FAQs

贝壳 (bèiké) means “shell” or “seashell”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it bèiké: bèi with a 4th tone, then ké with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 贝壳 is written 貝殼. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type beike with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 贝壳 from the suggestions. Typing beike into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
贝壳 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.