The Chinese word for back is
背
bèi
Chinese Definition
| back | |
| 1. 名词. 1.背部 | |
| 2. 名词. 2.後面 | |
| 3. 名词. 3.(書報等的)末尾 | |
| 4. 名词. 4.後衛 |
Translations for back and their definitions
| 後面 | |
| 1. n. rear; behind; back | |
| 2. n. later part; later section |
| 向後 | |
| 1. adv. back; backwards (to or in a previous condition or place) | |
| 2. adv. later; in the future | |
| 3. v. (Min Nan) to lean backwards |
| 最後 | |
| 1. adj. final; last; ultimate | |
| 2. adv. finally; in the end; ultimately | |
| 3. n. end |
| 背部 | |
| 1. n. (anatomy, formal) back |
| 背 | |
| 1. (anatomy) back | |
| 捶背 - to give a back massage | |
| 馬背 - horseback | |
| 2. back; backside; reverse side | |
| 手背 - back of the hand | |
| 紙背 - back of a piece of paper | |
| 3. to leave; to abandon | |
| 背井離鄉 - to leave one's native place and move elsewhere | |
| 4. to back onto | |
| 背 著着zhe 太陽 坐 - to sit with one's back to the sun | |
| 背 山 面 海 - backing on to a mountain and facing the sea | |
| 5. to betray | |
| 6. to do something behind one's back; to hide something from someone | |
| 男朋友 背 著着zhe 我 和 其他 女生 聊天。 - My boyfriend chats with other girls behind my back. | |
| 7. to deviate; to go contrary to; to violate | |
| 背約 - to break one’s promise | |
| 背 著着zhe 良心 說話 - to speak against one's conscience | |
| 8. to memorize; to recite | |
| 這 篇 文章 寫-得de 多 棒 啊，背 下來。 - How excellently written is this article! Memorize it. | |
| 你 背 ^唐詩 背 了 多少shǎo 首？ - How many Tang poems have you memorized? | |
| 9. unlucky; out of luck | |
| 10. hard of hearing | |
| 耳朵duo 有點兒r 背 - to be a bit hard of hearing | |
| 11. remote; out-of-the-way | |
| 12. to carry on the back | |
| 13. (figurative) to carry; to bear (blame); to shoulder (responsibility) |
| 向后 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 向後 |
| 最后 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 最後 |
| 後 | |
| 1. behind; rear; back | |
| 後院 - backyard | |
| 背後 - behind | |
| Antonyms: 前 | |
| 2. later; after; afterwards | |
| 以後 - after | |
| 然後 - after, afterwards | |
| 畢業 後 - after graduation | |
| 三 天 後 - after three days | |
| 3. last | |
| 後 五 名 - the last five | |
| 4. descendants; offsprings | |
| 無後 - to lack male offspring | |
| 5. post- | |
| 6. (literary) anus | |
| 寧為雞口，無為牛後 - Better be the beak of a chicken than the anus of an ox (proverb) |
| 脊背 | |
| 1. n. back (of a human being or any other vertebrate) |
| 后 | |
| ^后稷 - Hou Ji, (qlit, Lord of Millet - legendary Chinese cultural hero and progenitor of the Zhou dynasty) | |
| 1. queen; empress | |
| 王后 - queen | |
| 2. (chess) queen | |
| 3. =====Usage notes===== | |
| 4. Variant of 後 | |
| 5. usage. In the traditional-Chinese literate context, the use of (m-self, zh, 后) as a variant of 《大學》). |
| 以前 | |
| 1. n. earlier times; formerly; previously |
| 偏僻 | |
| 1. adj. remote; out of the way | |
| 2. adj. rare; peculiar |
| 後面的 | |
| 1. rear, being behind, or in the hindmost part |
| 后面 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 後面 |
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