dài
lend
Phonosemantic compound. 贝 represents the meaning and 代 represents the sound. Simplified form of 貸.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 贷
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
a loan | ||
a loan | ||
credit | ||
loan shark | ||
to borrow or lend money |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 6.9358% of movies
2123rd most common character in movies
1605th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8D37 |
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