老婆婆被烧死。

An old woman was burnt to death.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 老婆婆 lǎopopó
  1. (childish) granny; old lady
  2. (dialectal Mandarin, colloquial) husband's mother; mother-in-law
  3. granny; old lady
  4. husband's mother; mother-in-law
=2 被 bèi
  1. quilt
  2. to cover (with)
  3. (literary) to suffer (a misfortune)
  4. 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)
  5. (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 bèilu:yóu to "go on a trip")
=2 被 pī
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 披 (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
  2. alternative form of 披 (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
=2 被 bì
  1. alternative form of 彼 (bǐ, “that”)
  2. alternative form of 髲 (bì, “wig”)
=2 被 pì alternative form of 帔
3 烧死 shāosǐ to burn to death