dài
idle
Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 台 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 怠
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
idle | ||
to slight | ||
worn out | ||
slack | ||
to slacken off in one's work |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*lˤəʔ | dojX | dài | idle, negligent |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3024th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+6020 |
Shuowen | “怠，慢也。从心，台聲。” |
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