待 (dài)
to stay / to wait / to treat
How 待 is written
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 彳 — step
- Traditional
- 待
- Simplified
- 待 (unchanged)
Components
- 彳 step
- 土 earth
- 寸 thumb
待 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- dāi
- stay; delay
- dài
- to wait; to treat; to deal with; to need
Common words using 待
- 期待 qīdài
- to look forward to; to await; expectation
- 等待 děngdài
- to wait; to wait for
- 善待 shàndài
- to treat well
- 對待 duìdài
- to treat; treatment
- 待人 dàirén
- to treat sb
- 待遇 dàiyù
- treatment; pay; salary
- 招待 zhāodài
- to receive (guests); to entertain; reception
- 接待 jiēdài
- to receive (a visitor); to admit (allow sb to enter)
- 看待 kàndài
- to look upon; to regard
- 迫不及待 pòbùjídài
- impatient (idiom); in a hurry; itching to get on with it
- 亟待 jídài
- see 急待[ji2 dai4]
- 交待 jiāodài
- variant of 交代[jiao1 dai4]
待 in a sentence
放假的時候，我喜歡待在家裡看書。
Fàngjià de shíhòu, wǒ xǐhuān dāi zài jiālǐ kànshū.
“When on vacation, I like to stay at home and read.”
How common is 待?
待 is the 672nd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 82% of all running text.
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