宝贝
bǎo bèi 3–4
treasured object; treasure; darling; baby; cowry; good-for-nothing or queer character
- Characters
- 2
- 宝 · 贝
- Syllables
- 2
- bǎo bèi
- Frequency
- Common
- corpus count 1,003
Part of speech: n
Character by character
- 宝bǎo8 strokesHSK 4 traditional 寶treasure, jewel; precious, rare
- 贝bèi4 strokesHSK 4 traditional 貝sea shell; money, currency
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
他是家里的宝贝。
Tā shì jiā lǐ de bǎo bèi
He is the baby of the family.
她是老师的宝贝。
Tā shì lǎo shī de bǎo bèi
She is a teacher's pet.
妈妈亲了她的宝贝。
Mā ma qīn le tā de bǎo bèi
The mother kissed her baby.
出什么事了,宝贝?
Chū shén me shì le bǎo bèi
What's wrong, honey?
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 宝贝. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 宝bǎoHSK 4
jewel; gem; treasure; precious
- 宝宝bǎo baoHSK 4
darling; baby
- 宝贵bǎo guìHSK 4
valuable; precious; to value; to treasure; to set store by
- 珠宝zhū bǎoHSK 6
pearls; jewels; precious stones
- 宝石bǎo shíHSK 4
precious stone; gem
- 宝藏bǎo zàngHSK 7
precious mineral deposits; hidden treasure; (fig.) treasure; (Buddhism) the treasure of Buddha's law
- 贝壳bèi kéHSK 7
shell; conch; cowry; mother of pearl; hard outer skin; also pr. [bèi qiào]
- 国宝guó bǎoHSK 7
national treasure
- 宝库bǎo kùHSK 7
treasure-house; treasury; treasure-trove (often fig., book of treasured wisdom)
- 瑰宝guī bǎoHSK 7
gem; (fig.) rare and valuable item; gem; treasure