lài
depend on
Original meaning:
profit
Phonosemantic compound. 貝 represents the meaning and 剌 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "profit". The meaning later shifted to "rely on" and "blame".
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*rˤa[t]-s | lajH | lài | depend on |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 22.1528% of movies
1372nd most common character in movies
1365th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8CF4 |
Shuowen | “賴,贏也。从貝,剌聲。” |
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