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歹
Mandarin · pinyin dǎi
Meanings
- bad
- wicked
- evil
- Kangxi radical 78
Characters in this entry
- 歹
- dǎi · bad, vicious, depraved, wicked
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Mandarin tones
3 · dai3
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Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.
Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 11 senses · 3 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
aat3 · daai2 · ngaat6
Cantonese word readings for 歹. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character · Etymology 1
- (obsolete) bone remnants
character · Etymology 2
- (obsolete) bone remains
character · Etymology 1
- bad; wicked; evil
- misdeed; something evil
character · Etymology 2
- (Hokkien, Teochew) bad; wicked; evil
- (Hokkien) to become bad; to break down
- (Hokkien) to be fierce
- (Hokkien) to cause something to be harmed or damaged
- (Hokkien) difficult; hard (to do something)
character · Etymology 3
- (alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 待 (“to stay”)
character · Etymology 4
- (used by Miao people) I, you
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