verb #33,274

Meanings

  1. 1 (literary / classical) to cause; to make so that
  2. 2 to enable
  3. 3 phonetic 'bi' in transliterations (e.g. 俾斯麦 Bismarck)

Examples

Qǐng jiāng tōngzhī gōngbù, bǐ zhòng zhōuzhī.
Please publish the notice so that everyone may be informed.
Gǎigé shuìzhì, bǐ jīngjì fùsū.
Reform the tax system, so as to revive the economy.

Tips

register
Strictly literary/formal — you'll find in legal notices, classical texts and formulaic phrases like ("so that everyone may be informed"). In modern speech use 使 or instead.
history
Originally meant "gatekeeper / minor functionary" (《》: ), then by extension "to put someone in service of" → "to cause". Also the phonetic in (Bismarck).

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