cowrie / shellfish / currency (archaic)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a crab. In the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4), the Neanderthal man (人) and Beelzebub (b) are fighting a crab with staplers (⺆), but because the Neanderthal man (人) can't handle the stapler he accidentally staples himself in the forehead.

贝 character breakdown

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 13), occurring in 用[yong4], 同[tong2], 網|网[wang3] etc, referred to as 同字框[tong2 zi4 kuang4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol from the shape of the character: kind of looks like a map.

Zeus (ju) found a secret map (冂) that tells the location of a golden dinosaur bone (丨) in front of the engine ((e)ng1), so he took a plow (㇆) and dug up everything. He actually found a couple of dinosaur bones, but not a golden one.
Variant of 冂, but the left stroke is 丿, not 丨

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: ⺆ looks like a staple, as used in a stapler.

Zeus (ju) wants to plant bananas (丿) in front of the engine ((e)ng1). He uses a plow (㇆) to dig up the earth and puts the bananas inside. To prevent the bananas from falling down, he staples them down with a stapler (⺆).
person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: Neanderthal Man (人). Robinson Crusoe (r-) is looking for snacks in the encampment's kitchen (-en2) when he suddenly spots Neanderthal Man (人). Neanderthal Man offers him a banana (丿), but Robinson Crusoe doesn't trust the present and pokes it with a finger (㇏).

Characters with 贝 as component

person / employee / member

= + : Yu the Great and a crab are having dinner just inside the anthill's kitchen. They ordered mandarins, and the waiter serves them.

= + : Mnemonic symbol from 服务员, a waiter.
money / wealth / riches / property / valuables

= + : The King of Chu found a big money bag in the airplane's kitchen, but he knows that there is no free lunch. Carefully, he scans the content of the bag with his X-ray power vision, and inside the bag, he finds a crab waiting to strike on its prey.
surname He

= + : After Hamlet (h) won his final duel he visited the elevator's bathroom (e4), where the crab (贝) was cheering for him waving with pompoms (加) and congratulating (贺) him on his victory.
to congratulate

= + : After Hamlet (h) won his final duel he visited the elevator's bathroom (e4), where the crab (贝) was cheering for him waving with pompoms (加) and congratulating (贺) him on his victory.
to offer tribute / tribute / gifts

= + : Gitta Giraffe (gu) is offering a tribute (贡) to her god in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4). The tribute is a crab (贝) at the high tip of a steel beam (工) which has been rammed into the ground.
surname Gong

= + : Gitta Giraffe (gu) is offering a tribute (贡) to her god in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4). The tribute is a crab (贝) at the high tip of a steel beam (工) which has been rammed into the ground.
poor / inadequate / deficient / garrulous

= + : Pocahontas (pi) has the crab (贝) cut her hair while stopping the time with a stopwatch (分) in the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2). While the crab cuts quite fast, the resulting hairstyle is of very poor (贫) quality.
dam / dike; embankment / CL:條|条[tiao2]
dam / dike / embankment / CL:條|条[tiao2]

= + : The crab (贝) wants to use the ashram's bathroom (a4), but Beelzebub (b) built a dike (坝) made out of dirt (土) and the crab is unable to overcome the dike.
to confer / to bestow / to grant / Taiwan pr. [si4]

= + : The King of Chu (c) bestows (赐) a very easy puzzle (易) to the crab (贝) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).
chaste

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a girdle of chastity. James II of England (zh) wants to get rid of his girdle of chastity (贞). In front of the encampment ((e)n1) he asks the crab (贝) to destroy the girdle, but the crab waves with a pennant (⺊) instead to alarm the royal guard.
expensive / noble / precious / (honorific) your

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a treasure chest. Gitta Giraffe (gu) and the crab (贝) found a treasure chest (贵) in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4). Inside of the chest they found a very precious dart board (中) and flutes (一) made out of gold; they mistake the flutes for darts and play a game of darts throwing the flutes at the very expensive (贵) dart board.
to give as a present / to repel / to bestow an honorary title after death (old)

= + : In engine's bathroom ((e)ng4) Zorro (z) is giving a firefly (曾) to the crab (贝) as a present (赠), and the crab promptly eats the firefly.
to stick / to paste / to post (e.g. on a blog) / to keep close to / to fit snugly / to subsidize / allowance (e.g. money for food or housing) / sticker / classifier for sticking plaster: strip

= + : Mother Teresa (ti) wants to start a revolution and so she is pasting (贴) posters everywhere around the elevator. In front of it (e1) she is posting a poster with a crab (贝) holding a yellow umbrella (占), subversively telling the local crab population that they should rise up against their oppression.
(bound form) bribery
bribe / bribery

贿 = + : In the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4) Helga Horse (hu) is bribing (贿) the crab (贝) with its favorite food, confetti (有).
stolen goods / booty / spoils

= + : Zorro (z) is piercing up the crab (贝) with his rapier in front of the anglepod (ang1). He has caught it red handed (赃) with stolen goods (赃) from the farmstead (庄) next to the anglepod.
variant of 贓|赃[zang1]

Words with 贝

copy / to copy (loanword)
precious darling (often refers to one's child) / sweetheart
precious darling (often refers to one's child); sweetheart
scallop (genus Pecten)
John Rabe (1882-1950), German who helped protect Chinese during the Nanking massacre period
(of a child) apple of one's eye
Barbados, Caribbean island (Tw)
"Becks", nickname of British footballer David Beckham (see 貝克漢姆|贝克汉姆[Bei4 ke4 han4 mu3])
Pokémon or Pocket Monsters, popular Japanese video game, anime and manga
surname Fröbel or Froebel / Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel (1782-1852), German pedagogue
Robert Mugabe (1924-2019), Zimbabwean ZANU-PF politician, president of Zimbabwe 1987-2017
John Steinbeck (1902-1968), US novelist
erhua variant of 寶貝|宝贝[bao3 bei4]
Sichuan fritillary bulb (Bulbus fritillariae cirrhosae, used in TCM)
Sanskrit on Talipot palm leaves (idiom); Buddhist scripture
Farrer's scallop (Chlamys farreri), aka Chinese scallop
Tønsberg (city in Vestfold, Norway)

Sentences with 贝

zhè
bǎo
bèi
dà
yǒu
lái
lì