DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

□

Mandarin · pinyin biàng#

(Tw) (coll.) cool
awesome
(etymologically, a contracted form of 不一樣 bù yī yàng)
often written as ㄅㄧㄤˋ

Mandarin · pinyin biū#

(onom.) pew! (sound of a bullet fired from a gun)
also pr. biù

Mandarin · pinyin gīng#

uptight; obstinate; to awkwardly force oneself to do sth (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. king, often written as ㄍㄧㄥ, no generally accepted hanzi form)

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

4 · biang4

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

1source reference

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

□ · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗