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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

必备

bìbèi

essential

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

essential

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 必备 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 必备 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

热水袋真是冬日必备好物!rè shuǐ dài zhēn shì dōng rì bì bèi hǎo wù!

A hot water bottle is something you must buy to prepare for the winter months.

一本英日字典无疑地是一本必备的书,不仅是对那些参加多益考试的人,而且是对所有学习英语的人。yī běn yīng rì zì diǎn wú yí dì shì yī běn bì bèi de shū, bù jǐn shì duì nà xiē cān jiā duō yì kǎo shì de rén, ér qiě shì duì suǒ yǒu xué xí yīng yǔ de rén。

An English-Japanese dictionary is surely a must have book, not just for those taking TOEIC, but for all studying English.

想要舒适地度过名古屋的夏天,电风扇是必备的。xiǎng yào shū shì dì dù guò míng gǔ wū de xià tiān, diàn fēng shàn shì bì bèi de。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 必备.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 必备.

Directly before

  • 是必备2
  • 一本必备1
  • 冬日必备1

Directly after

  • 必备的2
  • 必备好物1
  • 必备书籍1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 必备

What does 必备 mean in Chinese?

必备 (bìbèi) means essential.

How do you pronounce 必备?

必备 is pronounced bìbèi.

Is 必备 an HSK word?

必备 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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