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Chinese Vocabulary

贝

shellfish, clam

贝
bèi4th tone
Pinyin
bèi
Strokes
4
In episodes
1

Stroke order for 贝

贝 is written with 4 strokes. The animation replays automatically.

Usage

What Italy farms, and what the crabs eat.

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贝 appears in 1 Fluentide podcast episode at natural native speed — each with the full Chinese script, pinyin, and line-by-line English translation.

Blue Crabs Rode Ballast Water to Italy and Ate the Clams. So They Released 80,000 Baby Octopuses — Which May Not Go Where the Crabs Are.贝 spoken at natural speedbeginner
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