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

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 22.1528% of movies
1372nd most common character in movies
1365th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8D56 |
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