CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

被告人

bèigàorén

defendant (in legal case)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

defendant (in legal case)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 被告人 actually appears in real sentences.

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「被告人」一词是法律用语。「bèi gào rén」 yī cí shì fǎ lǜ yòng yǔ。

"The accused" is a legal term.

该报文章中将被告人描述成一个罪魁祸首，尽管他已经被证明是无辜的了。gāi bào wén zhāng zhōng jiàng bèi gào rén miáo shù chéng yí gè zuì kuí huò shǒu， jǐn guǎn tā yǐ jīng bèi zhèng míng shì wú gū de le。

The news article painted the defendant as a guilty man, even though he had been proven innocent.

如果犯罪嫌疑人、被告人死亡，那么刑事责任将彻底终结，但民事赔偿不免除。被害人可单独提起民事诉讼，要求死者继承人在继承遗产范围内赔偿损失；民事责任可以继承，而刑事责任不能继承。rú guǒ fàn zuì xián yí rén、 bèi gào rén sǐ wáng， nà me xíng shì zé rèn jiāng chè dǐ zhōng jié， dàn mín shì péi cháng bù miǎn chú。 bèi hài rén kě dān dú tí qǐ mín shì sù sòng， yāo qiú sǐ zhě jì chéng rén zài jì chéng yí chǎn fàn wéi nèi péi cháng sǔn shī； mín shì zé rèn kě yǐ jì chéng， ér xíng shì zé rèn bù néng jì chéng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 被告人.

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

Directly before

中将被告人1

Directly after

被告人描述1
被告人死亡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 被告人

What does 被告人 mean in Chinese?

被告人 (bèigàorén) means defendant (in legal case).

How do you pronounce 被告人?

被告人 is pronounced bèigàorén.

Is 被告人 an HSK word?

被告人 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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