Characters

• 被 (被): quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅遊|被旅游[bei4 lu:3 you2] to "go on a trip", for example)
• 动 (動): (of sth) to move; to set in movement; to displace; to touch; to make use of; to stir (emotions); to alter; abbr. for 動詞|动词[dong4 ci2], verb

Resources

• Wiktionary: 被动
• MDBG: 被动
• Examples with 被动 on Tatoeba

Examples

看電視是一種被動的活動。

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