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Results for 比
 bǐ to compare / (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun} / ratio / to gesture / (Taiwan pr. [bi4] in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese)
 bì to associate with / to be near
 bī euphemistic variant of 屄[bi1]
Results beginning with 比
 bǐ jiào to compare / to contrast / comparatively / relatively / quite / comparison
 bǐ sài competition (sports etc) / match / CL:場|场[chang3],次[ci4] / to compete
 bǐ rú for example / for instance / such as
 bǐ lì proportion / scale
 bǐ qǐ compared with
 bǐ zhòng proportion / specific gravity
 bǐ fēn score
 bǐ yù to compare / to liken to / metaphor / analogy / figure of speech / figuratively
 Bǐ ěr Bill (name)
 bǐ lu:4 ratio / rate / proportion
 bǐ wǔ martial arts competition / tournament / to compete in a contest
 bǐ tè bit (binary digit) (loanword)
 bǐ nǐ to compare / to draw a parallel / to match / analogy / metaphor / comparison
 bǐ pīn to compete fiercely / contest
 bǐ shì to have a competition / to measure with one's hand or arm / to make a gesture of measuring
 bǐ duì comparison / to verify by comparing
 bǐ huà to gesture / to use sign language / to gesticulate / to engage in body combat or martial art / to come to blows
 bǐ hua to gesture / to gesticulate / to practice the moves of a martial art by imitating the teacher / to fight / to come to blows
 bǐ fang analogy / instance / for instance
 bǐ sà pizza (loanword)
 Bǐ lì Pelé / (1940-), Edson Arantes Do Nascimento, Brazilian football star
 Bǐ yà Bia, daughter of Pallas and Styx in Greek mythology, personification of violence
 bǐ zhào according to / in the light of / contrast
 bǐ jià price relations / parity / rate of exchange
 bǐ zuò to liken to / to compare to
 Bǐ qiū Buddhist monk (loanword from Sanskrit "bhiksu")
 bǐ jiān to be shoulder to shoulder / to be on an equal level with / Taiwan pr. [bi4 jian1]
 bǐ zhí ratio
 bǐ wéi to liken to / to compare to
 bǐ zuò to liken to / to compare to
 bǐ lín neighbor / next-door neighbor / near / next to
 bǐ huà gesture / to gesticulate
 bǐ hua variant of 比劃|比划[bi3 hua5]
 Bǐ ān Bienne, Switzerland
 bǐ suǒ peso (currency in Latin America) (loanword)
 bǐ yì (flying) wing to wing
 Bǐ Gān Bi Gan (Chinese god of wealth)
 bǐ jí (literary) when / by the time / Taiwan pr. [bi4 ji2]
 bǐ rè specific heat
 bǐ liang to measure roughly (with the hand, a stick, string etc)
 Bǐ shào Bissau, capital of Guinea-Bissau
  margin range
 bǐ bǔ (old) to set a time limit for the arrest of a criminal / Taiwan pr. [bi4 bu3]
 Bì cái Bizet (name) / Georges Bizet (1838-1875), French musician, composer of opera Carmen
 bǐ fù to draw a parallel
 bǐ lái lately / recently
 bǐ làn to compare two unsatisfactory things / to argue that others have similar or worse faults (as a response to criticism) / whataboutery
 bǐ nián (literary) every year / year after year / in recent years / Taiwan pr. [bi4 nian2]
 bǐ pàn (Tw) to compete / contest
 bǐ róng specific volume
湿 bǐ shī specific humidity
 bǐ xīn (Internet slang) to form a hand heart using one's thumb and forefinger (or by using both hands)
 bǐ zàn to give a thumbs-up
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 bǐ rú shuō for example
 bǐ bù shàng can't compare with
 Bǐ lì shí Belgium
 bǐ jiǎo shǎo lesser
 bǐ jī ní bikini (loanword)
 bǐ fang shuō for example / for instance
 Bǐ yà dí BYD Company (company name)
 bǐ lì chǐ scale / architect's scale / engineer's scale
 bǐ mù yú flatfish / flounder
 bǐ sà bǐng pizza (loanword) / CL:張|张[zhang1]
 bǐ qiū ní Buddhist nun (loanword from Sanskrit "bhiksuni")
 bǐ jiào jí comparative degree
  colorimeter
  bilinga / opepe
  odds ratio
  colourimetry
 bǐ bù liǎo cannot compare to / to be no match for
 Bǐ ěr bó Bilbo Baggins, hero of Tolkien's The Hobbit 霍比特人
 bǐ gān sài stroke play (golf)
 bǐ jiān ní see 比基尼[bi3 ji1 ni2]
 bǐ jiào xīn comparatively new / relatively new
 bǐ ōu zú House
 bǐ ruì shān Mount
 Bǐ rú xiàn Biru county, Tibetan: 'Bri ru rdzong, in Nagchu prefecture 那曲地區|那曲地区[Na4 qu3 di4 qu1], central Tibet
 bǐ sài chǎng stadium / playing field for a competition
 bǐ sǎ liè Bezalel
 bǐ sī kāi Bizkaia or Vizcaya, Spain
 Bǐ sī tè Brest (the most western French town)
 bǐ tè bì Bitcoin (cryptocurrency)
 Bǐ tè nà (surname) Bittner or Büttner
 bǐ tè quǎn pit bull (loanword)
 bǐ wàn lì arm wrestling (Tw)
 bǐ wēi lì yield-to-weight ratio (of a nuclear weapon)
 bǐ xià qù to defeat / to be superior to
 bǐ yi bǐ to make a comparison / to engage in a contest
 bǐ yù yì figurative meaning (of a word)
 bǐ zhí bǐ odds ratio
 bǐ jiào xǐ huān to prefer
 bǐ bǐ jiē shì can be found everywhere
 bǐ jiào yōu shì comparative
 bì ěr gài cí Bill Gates, Microsoft founder
 bǐ sài xiàng mù sporting event / item on program of sports competition
 bǐ yì shuāng fēi lit. a pair of birds flying close together (idiom) / fig. two hearts beating as one / name of a sweet and sour chicken wing dish
 bǐ yì qí fēi to fly wing to wing (idiom) / two hearts beating as one / (of a couple) inseparable
 Bǐ shí kǎi kè Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan
 bǐ shǒu huà jiǎo to gesticulate / to make lively gestures (while talking) / also written 比手畫腳|比手画脚
  Pisa Warehouse
  benchmarking
  comparative advantage
  margin range
  proportionality principle
  comparison template
  scale exaggeration / exaggeration
  scaling experiment
 Bǐ fó lì Shān Beverly Hills
 Bǐ hā ěr bāng Bihar, state in eastern India
 bǐ huò ěr lóng Bihariosaurus
 bǐ jiào ér yán comparatively speaking
 bǐ jiào fēn xī comparative analysis
 bǐ jiào wén xué comparative literature
 Bǐ jī ní Dǎo Bikini atoll, French nuclear test site in South Pacific
 bǐ líng sī xiàn Billings
 Bǐ lì niú sī Pyrenees mountains
 bǐ lì suō xiǎo scale reduction
 Bǐ sà Xié tǎ Leaning Tower of Pisa
 bǐ sè fēn xī colorimetric analysis
 Bǐ shì wēng yīng (bird species of China) Bianchi's warbler (Seicercus valentini)
 bǐ shǒu huà jiǎo to gesticulate / to make lively gestures (while talking) / also written 比手劃腳|比手划脚
 Bǐ sī kāi wān Bay of Biscay
 bǐ sī kè lā Biskra
 Bǐ lè tuó lì yà Pretoria, capital of South Africa
  shopping robot / shopbot
  scaling accuracy
 Bǐ āi zī bā bó Beelzebub
 bǐ dēng tiān hái nán lit. even harder than reaching the sky (idiom) / fig. extremely difficult / far from an easy task
 Bǐ ěr · Gài cí Bill Gates (1955-), founder and chairman of Microsoft
· Bǐ ěr · Gài cí Bill Gates (1955-), co-founder of Microsoft
 Bǐ lè fèi ěr dé Bielefeld (city in Germany)
 bǐ lì dài biǎo zhì proportional representation
 Bǐ lì niú sī shān Pyrenees mountains
 bǐ lì shí wáng guó the Kingdom of Belgium
 Bǐ yà dí qì chē BYD Auto, PRC car company
  Society for Comparative Legislation
  Biketawa Declaration
  disproportionate effect
  Bishkek Declaration of the International Conference "Afghanistan and regional economic cooperation: Central Asia, Iran and Pakistan" / Bishkek Declaration
 bǐ kè ěr sī jí lóng Becklespinax
 bǐ lì niú sī yòu yǎn Pyrenean
 bǐ yà wéi sī tuō kè Białystok, city in Poland
  Pretoria Declaration (on biological diversity)
  Pretoria Agreement on the Peace Process in Côte d'Ivoire / Pretoria Agreement
 bǐ shàng bù zú bǐ xià yǒu yú to fall short of the best but be better than the worst / can pass muster
  Benelux Office for Intellectual Property
  Bishkek Programme of Action / Programme of Action
  Viña del Mar Declaration
  Viña del Mar Agreement
  Pretoria Minute
Approximate Results for 比
 xiāng bǐ to compare
 wú bǐ incomparable / matchless
 duì bǐ to contrast / contrast / ratio / CL:個|个[ge4]
 tóng bǐ (statistics) compared with the same period of the previous year / year on year / year over year
 bù bǐ unlike
 píng bǐ to evaluate (by comparison)
 Kē bǐ Kobe Bryant / abbr. for 科比·布萊恩特|科比·布莱恩特[Ke1 bi3 · / Bu4 lai2 en1 te4]
 kě bǐ comparable
 hǎo bǐ to be just like / can be compared to
 Bā bǐ Barbie
 lèi bǐ analogy / (Tw) (electronics) analog
 pān bǐ to make invidious comparisons / to compete with / to emulate
 huán bǐ (statistics) period on period (i.e. "month on month" or "quarter on quarter" etc, depending on the context)
 Dù bǐ Dolby (audio technology)
 lú bǐ rupee (Indian currency) (loanword)
 lā bǐ rabbi (loanword)
 A1 bǐ Abby or Abi (name, sometimes short for Abigail)
 děng bǐ geometric (of mathematical sequences or progressions)
 pái bǐ parallelism (rhetoric) / to arrange things alongside each other
 zhèng bǐ direct ratio / directly proportional
 fǎn bǐ inversely proportional / inverse ratio
 zhì bǐ lined up close (like teeth of a comb)
 gē bǐ kopeck (unit of money, one hundredth of ruble) (loanword)
 jiào bǐ comparatively (colloquial) / fairly / quite / rather / relatively
 bǎ bí (loanword) daddy
 bān bǐ Bambi
 bō bǐ burpee (loanword)
 dòu bī (slang) silly but amusing person
 fù bǐ compound ratio (i.e. the product of two or more ratios)
 kān bǐ to be comparable to
 lián bǐ compound ratio
 nì bì intimate
 niú bī variant of 牛屄[niu2 bi1]
 zhuī bǐ to flog / to cane (as punishment)
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Q bā bǐ Q (slang) BBQ
 xìng jià bǐ cost-performance ratio
 duì bǐ dù contrast (balance of black and white in TV screen setup) / degree of contrast
 bǎi fēn bǐ percentage
 Jiā lè bǐ Caribbean
 àn bǐ lì to scale (adj.)
 yā suō bǐ compression ratio
 Lì bǐ yà Libya
 Bā bǐ lún Babylon
 kě bǐ xìng comparability
 Qiū bǐ tè Cupid, son of Venus and Mars, Roman god of love and beauty
 chéng fǎn bǐ to vary inversely / inversely proportional to
 Zàn bǐ yà Zambia
 xìng bié bǐ sex ratio
 Lái bǐ xī Leipzig, city in the state of Saxony, Germany
 Shǐ nú bǐ Snoopy (comic strip pet dog)
 chuán dòng bǐ transmission ratio / gear ratio
 Gāng bǐ yà Gambia
 Hā bǐ rén Hobbit / see also 霍比特人[Huo4 bi3 te4 ren2]
 xìn zào bǐ signal-to-noise ratio
 zhēng bǐ lì direct proportionality
 zhèng bǐ lì direct proportionality
 gāo kuān bǐ aspect ratio
  Wahhabi
  ratio of water to land / water to land ratio
  construction ratio
  structural ratio
  equiratio method
 A1 bǐ ràng Abidjan (city in Ivory Coast)
 Aì bǐ Hú Aibi Lake (Ebinur) in Xinjiang
 bā bǐ tuǒ barbitone / barbital
 Běn nà bǐ see 本那比市[Ben3 na4 bi3 shi4]
 běn yì bǐ P⁄E ratio (price-to-earnings ratio)
 bō bǐ tiào burpee (loanword)
 bō cǎi bǐ stripping-to-ore ratio / stripping ratio
 cháng kuān bǐ aspect ratio
 Dǐ bǐ sī Thebes, place name in ancient Egypt / Thebes, ancient Greek city state
 duì bǐ sè color contrast
 E2 bǐ Hé Ebinur River in Xinjiang
 Féi lì bǐ Philip / Philippi
 Gài cí bǐ Gatsby
 Gān bǐ yà Gambia (Tw)
 gōng shè bǐ (Tw) shared-facilities ratio (expressed as a percentage of the total floor space of a building)
 Hēi bǐ nuò Pinot noir (grape type)
 jiǎ bǐ ěr Geber
 Lā gé bǐ Rugby (game) / Rugby school in England
 lì bǐ duō libido (loanword)
 Nài luò bǐ Nairobi, capital of Kenya (Tw)
 Nèi bǐ dū Naypyidaw or Nay Pyi Taw, capital of Myanmar
 Nǔ bǐ yà Nubia
 qiū bǐ tè Cupid (Eros)
 Rè bǐ yà Rabiye or Rebiya (name) / Rebiya Kadeer or Rabiye Qadir (1947-), Uighur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999-2005, then president of the World Uighur Congress
 Rè bǐ yà Rabiye or Rebiya (name) / Rebiya Kadeer or Rabiye Qadir (1947-), Uighur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999-2005, then president of the World Uighur Congress
 Shàng bǐ yà Zambia (Tw)
 Shǐ nǔ bǐ Snoopy (comic strip pet dog)
 Sū fù bǐ Sotheby's auction house
 wǎ sà bǐ wasabi (loanword)
 wā shā bǐ wasabi (loanword) (Tw)
 wēi bǐ jiǎng Webby Awards
 xuě lā bǐ Celebi
 Yà bǐ yù Abiud (son of Zerubbabel)
 yāo tún bǐ waist-hip
 zhǎn xián bǐ (wing) aspect ratio (aerodynamics)
 Gē lún bǐ yà Colombia / Columbia (District of, or University etc)
 xiāng bǐ zhī xià by comparison
 wú yǔ lún bǐ incomparable
 Shā shì bǐ yà Shakespeare (name) / William Shakespeare (1564-1616), poet and playwright
 Jiā lè bǐ Hǎi Caribbean Sea
 jīn fēi xī bǐ things are very different now (idiom) / times have changed
 Lì bǐ lǐ yà Liberia
 jiāng xīn bǐ xīn to put oneself in sb else's shoes (idiom)
 lín cì zhì bǐ row upon row
 Mò sāng bǐ kè Mozambique
 Nà mǐ bǐ yà Namibia
 A1 bù Zā bǐ Abu Dhabi, capital of United Arab Emirates (UAE)
 A1 bù zhā bǐ Abu Dhabi, capital of United Arab Emirates (UAE)
寿 shòu bǐ Nán Shān Live as long as the Zhongnan Mountains! (idiom) / Long may you live!
 tiān yá bǐ lín see 天涯若比鄰|天涯若比邻[tian1 ya2 ruo4 bi3 lin2]
  barbituric acid
  pentobarbital
  Division for the Caribbean
  large-scale
  specific gravity
  vinylbital
  chain indices
  clearance failure ratio / clearance-to-failure ratio / proof factor
  small-scale
  standard ratio
  masculinity proportion
  marabout
  butobarbital
  butalbital
  secbutabarbital
  barbital calcium
  Caribbean Unit
  Caribbean Section
  meeting ratio
  established treatment / conventional treatment / control treatment / comparison treatment / standard treatment / gold standard
 A1 bù Dá bǐ Abu Dhabi, capital of United Arab Emirates (Tw)
 A1 dá bǐ ěr Ardabil in Azerbaijan region of Iran
 ān jī bǐ lín aminopyrine (loanword)
 ān tì bǐ lín antipyrine (loanword)
 bān bǐ dào lóng Bambiraptor
 běn bā bǐ tuǒ phenobarbital
 Běn nà bǐ shì Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
 bō bǐ yùn dòng burpee (loanword)
 cái wù bǐ lu:4 financial ratios
 dà bǐ mù yú halibut
 dà nǎo bǐ yù brain metaphor
 děng bǐ jí shù geometric series (such as 1+2+4+8+...)
 děng bǐ shù liè geometric progression
 Dì bì lì sī T'bilisi, capital of Georgia 格魯吉亞|格鲁吉亚[Ge2 lu3 ji2 ya4]
 duì bǐ lián xiǎng word association / association of ideas
 duì bǐ wēn dù temperature contrast / difference in temperature (of body to its surroundings)
 ēn bǐ tiān dà to be as kind and benevolent as heaven (idiom)
 Féi lì bǐ shū Epistle of St Paul to the Philippians
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