The Chinese word for sheet is
被单
bèi dān
Chinese Definition
| sheet | |
| 1. 名词. 岩席 | |
| Components | |
| 被 | |
| 1. bedding; quilt; blanket | |
| 被子zi - quilt | |
| 被褥 - bedding, bedclothes | |
| 墊被 - mattress | |
| 2. by | |
| 我 被 蚊子zi 咬 了。 - I got bitten by mosquitoes. | |
| 3. (Used before a verb to indicate passive voice, often with a negative connotation.) | |
| 我 的 錶 被 偷 了。 - My watch has been stolen. | |
| 我們 的 汽車 尾巴ba 被 撞壞 了。 - The rear end of our car was smashed. | |
| 4. (neologism) passively; under duress; in a forged manner; etc. | |
| 被.自殺 - to "be suicided"; to be killed by the authorities who then pass one's death off as suicide | |
| 被 就業 - to "be achieved employment"; to be falsely recorded as employed (for the purpose of falsifying employment data) | |
| 被 吸菸 - to smoke secondhand | |
| 被 嫖娼 - to be falsely accused of visiting a prostitute | |
| 5. . (attention, zh, not sure if it should be here or in pron 1) | |
| 6. =====Usage notes===== | |
| 7. Alternative form of 髲 (wig) | |
| 8. Alternative form of 彼 (that) | |
| 9. Alternative form of 帔 | |
| 单 | |
| 1. Variant of 單 |
Translations for 单 and their definitions
| 篇 | |
| 1. (historical) bound set of bamboo slips used for recordkeeping | |
| 2. piece of writing | |
| 3. sheet of paper |
| 床單 | |
| 1. n. bedsheet |
| 床单 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 床單 |
| 張 | |
| 1. to string a bow; to pull a bowstring taut | |
| Antonyms: 弛 | |
| 張 弓 - to draw a bow | |
| 2. to stretch; to open up; to spread | |
| 張開 - to open up, to spread | |
| 張口 - to gape, to yawn | |
| 3. to expand; to spread | |
| 擴張 - to expand, expansion | |
| 聲張 - to make public, to disclose | |
| 誇張 - to exaggerate | |
| 4. to set out; to display | |
| 張貼 - to put up (a notice, poster, etc.) | |
| 5. to look | |
| 東張西望 - to look around | |
| 6. (of a new business) to start; to open for business | |
| 新張 - to begin doing business | |
| 一 張 地圖 - a map | |
| 一 張 桌子zi - a table | |
| 幾 張 凳 - several chairs | |
| 兩 張 紙 - two sheets of paper | |
| 一 張 嘴 - one mouth | |
| 高雄 一 張 - One ticket to Kaohsiung, MN | |
| 7. (Cantonese, Hakka, Zhongshan Min) | |
| 8. (Cantonese) (only for thirty years old or above) | |
| 三 張 嘢 - thirty-odd years old - | |
| 三 張 幾 - thirty-something years old - | |
| 9. (Chinese astronomy) Extended Net (one of Twenty-Eight Mansions) | |
| 10. . Zhang, (listed #24 of the Baijiaxing) | |
| ^張 ^飛 - Zhang Fei (Chinese military general serving under the warlord Liu Bei in the late Eastern Han dynasty) | |
| ^張 ^藝-謀 - Zhang Yimou (Chinese film director) | |
| 11. to boast; to exaggerate (now merged into Pronunciation 1) |
| 张 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 張 |
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