Kanji1 / 10
被 kanji
incur, cover, veil, brood over, shelter, wear, put on, be exposed (film), receiving
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ヒ
Kun readings
こうむるおおうかぶるかぶせる
Words with 被
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —被虐suffering (as a result of maltreatment)
- —被官lower government office (ritsuryō system); servant of a higher ranking person (during the middle ages); retainer; servant of an urban family; serf
- —外被(protective) coat; casing; housing; jacket
- —被毛hair coat (of an animal)
- —被殻putamen (part of brain); frustule; silicified cell wall of a diatom
- —被蓋tegmentum
- —被験experimental; trial; test
- —被布coat worn over a kimono
- —被甲putting on armor and helmet; wearing armor; gas mask; bullet-protective cover or jacket made of cupronickel
- —被動passivity; (the) passive; passive voice; passivity; passiveness
- —被験者subject (of a medical experiment, etc.); test subject; trial subject; testee; examinee (of a full-body scan, etc.)
- —被減数minuend
- —被差別discrimination
- —被災地stricken area; disaster-stricken area; affected area; afflicted area
- —被除数dividend
- —被乗数multiplicand
- —被爆者person exposed to radiation from a nuclear bomb; survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki; hibakusha
- —被傭者employee
- —被告席defendant's seat; the dock
- —被治者the ruled; the governed