待(dài)

HSK 39 strokes
Readingsdàidāi

to stay

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Character information

Pinyin
dài / dāi
Meaning
to stay; to remain
Strokes
9
HSK level
HSK 3
Traditional
Same

Origin & structure

Where 待 comes from and how its parts fit together.

Ideograph⿰彳寺

To welcome someone arriving 彳 at the royal court 寺

A combination of parts whose meanings add up to the whole.

Made of

彳chì寺sì

Parts are arranged left to right.

How to write 待 step by step

9 strokes — each frame adds one stroke, shown in dark ink over the lighter ones.

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Words with 待

Common words using 待 — tap any character to open its stroke-order page.

duì对dài待
HSK 3

to treat

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dài待huì会er儿
HSK 6

in a moment

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shǒu守zhū株dài待tù兔
HSK 7-9

lit. to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits (idiom)

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jí亟dài待

to need urgently; to need doing without delay

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jiāo交dài待

variant of 交代[jiao1 dai4]

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piān偏dài待

to show favoritism against sb; to treat unfairly

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yǐ以lǐ礼xiāng相dài待

to treat sb with due respect (idiom)

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yǐ以yì逸dài待láo劳

to wait at one's ease for the exhausted enemy

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对会儿守株兔亟交

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