I heard Tom was captured.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
被捕
to be arrested
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to be arrested
02
under arrest
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 被捕 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 被捕 appears in 9 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Why wasn't Tom arrested?
He was arrested for drunken driving.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 被捕.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 被捕.
Directly before
- 而被捕2
- 正是被捕1
- 十八日被捕1
- 兄弟被捕1
- 汤姆被捕1
Directly after
- 被捕的2
- 被捕了2
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 被捕
What does 被捕 mean in Chinese?
被捕 (bèibǔ) means to be arrested.
How do you pronounce 被捕?
被捕 is pronounced bèibǔ.
Is 被捕 an HSK word?
被捕 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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