Bei may refer to: *

North North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. ''North'' is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating Direction (geometry), direction or geography. Etymology T ...

, commonly encountered as (

Mandarin Mandarin or The Mandarin may refer to: Language * Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country ** Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China ** Taiwanese Mandarin, Stand ...

: ''běi'') in Chinese placenames *

Chinese stelae A stele ( ),Anglicized plural steles ( ); Greek plural stelai ( ), from Greek , ''stēlē''. The Greek plural is written , ''stēlai'', but this is only rarely encountered in English. or occasionally stela (plural ''stelas'' or ''stelæ''), whe ...

(, ''bēi'') *

Bei River Bei River (北江; literally "The North River"; pinyin: ''Běi Jiāng''; wade-giles: ''Pei3 Chiang1''; jyutping: ''Bak1 Gong1'', literally "North River") is the northern tributary of the Pearl River in southern China. The other two main tribu ...

, a tributary of the Pearl River in southern China *

Bei (surname) Bei is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in simplified Chinese and in traditional Chinese. It is romanized Pei in Wade–Giles. Bei is listed 110th in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. It i ...

(贝/貝), a Chinese surname * (''mathematics'') bei, a

Kelvin function In applied mathematics, the Kelvin functions ber''ν''(''x'') and bei''ν''(''x'') are the real and imaginary parts, respectively, of :J_\nu \left (x e^ \right ),\, where ''x'' is real, and , is the ''ν''th order Bessel function of the first kin ...

Yelü Bei Yelü Bei () (899''History of Liao'', vol. 72. – January 7, 937''Zizhi Tongjian'', vol. 280. Academia Sinicabr>Chinese-Western Calendar Converter), also known as Yelü Tuyu (耶律突欲 or 耶律圖欲), posthumously honored Emperor Wenxian Q ...

(899–937), Khitan prince (Yelü being his clan name)

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