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待

dài, dāi

wait, stay, treat

Phonosemantic compound. 彳 represents the meaning and 寺 represents the sound.

Components
彳 meaning component

彳  Meaning component

chì

  

walk

彳 is a component form of 行.

寺 sound component

寺  Sound component

sì

  

temple

Evolution

待 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
待 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
待 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
待 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
待 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

待  

dài

treat, entertain, receive; wait; to wait; to treat; to deal with; to need; going to (do sth); about to; intending to

待  

dāi

to stay

Most common words with 待
Freq.
Word
Meaning

待

to wait

期待

to await

等待

to wait

对待

to treat

待遇

pay

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]ˤəʔ

dojX

dài

wait on; depend on


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 81.9798% of movies

425th most common character in movies

673rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+5F85

Shuowen

“待，竢也。从彳，寺聲。”


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