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 lǜ chá We have drunk four cups of green tea