杯 bēi cup
Made up of [木 mù wood; wooden radical 75, 不 bù no; not; not ]Made with 8 strokes.
Wood suggests a wooden vessel, 'bu' used to suggest phonetic
Related characters
Also uses 木 mù component: 板 bǎn (board) 本 běn (root) 菜 cài (vegetable) 彩 cǎi (color) 茶 chá (tea) 柴 chái (firewood) 床 chuáng (bed) 杆 gān (pole) 果 guǒ (fruit) 机 jī (machine) 禁 jìn (to prohibit) 禁 jìn (to prohibit) 桔 jú (tangerine) 棵 kē (of plants) 来 lái (arrive) 李 lǐ (plum) 梨 lí (pear) 林 lín (forest) 楼 lóu (multi-story building) 棋 qí (board game) 秦 qín (Qin) 亲 qīn (parent) 柔 róu (soft) 杀 shā (to kill) 树 shù (tree) 术 shù (method) 宋 song (Song) 条 tiáo (strip) 未 wèi (not yet) 闲 xián (to stay idle) 相 xiāng (each other) 校 xiào (school) 椅 yǐ (chair) 植 zhí (to plant) 枝 zhī (branch) 桌 zhuō (table)
Also uses 不 bù component: 还 hái (still)
Different tone
北 běi (north) 贝 bèi (shell)Pronunciation
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Proverbs
杯水车薪 bēi shuǐ chē xīn Not putting in enough effort to solve a problem杯弓蛇影 bēi gōng shé yǐng Suspicious and frightened; plagued by fearful imagination. The story is of a man who was terrified by the sight of what he thought was a snake swimming in the cup of tea he was drinking. The experience made him ill and only when it was demonstrated that it was just the reflection of a bow left hanging on the wall did he recover.
Phrases
我 们 要 两 杯 咖 啡 wǒ mén yào liǎng bēi kā fēi We want two cups of coffee我 们 喝 了 四 杯 绿 茶 wǒ mén hē le sì bēi lù chá We have drunk four cups of green tea