Many universities relocated to Beibei during the war.
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Almost exclusively a place-name character. The best-known example is 北碚 (Beibei), a scenic district of 重庆 on the Jialing River that became a wartime academic refuge. Another is 虾蟆碚 in Hubei, subject of a poem by the Song writer Ouyang Xiu.
The right side 咅 supplies the sound (the same phonetic gives bèi in 倍 'times/double' and 陪 'to accompany'), so the reading is easy to recall by analogy.
