辨 biàn
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 辛 — bitter
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
辨别
biànbié
to distinguish; to discern
Characters in this word
别 bié
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 刂 — knife
- Made of
- 另 another 刂 knife
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 在信息过载的时代，辨别可靠来源比获取信息本身更困难。 Zài xìnxī guòzài de shídài, biànbié kěkào láiyuán bǐ huòqǔ xìnxī běnshēn gèng kùnnan. In an age of information overload, distinguishing reliable sources is harder than obtaining information itself.
- 他用鼻子就能辨别出这两种茶的不同。 Tā yòng bízi jiù néng biànbié chū zhè liǎng zhǒng chá de bùtóng. He can tell the difference between these two teas by smell alone.
- 天太黑了，我辨别不出前面是谁。 Tiān tài hēi le, wǒ biànbié bù chū qiánmiàn shì shéi. It is too dark, and I cannot make out who is ahead.
Related words
- 辨认 biànrèn to identify; to recognise
- 分辨 fēnbiàn to distinguish; to identify
- 别 bié don't; other
- 别的 biéde other, else
- 别人 biérén other people, others
- 特别 tèbié especially; very
- 分别 fēnbié separately; to part
- 告别 gàobié to say goodbye
- 区别 qūbié difference
- 性别 xìngbié gender
- 别 bié to leave; to part
- 个别 gèbié individual