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戴 (dài): meaning and stroke order

戴 (dài) means to put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc), to respect, to bear, to support, surname Dai.

戴

Simplified
戴
Traditional
戴 (same form)
Pinyin
dài

Stroke order of 戴

戴

  • Dài surname Dai
  • dài to put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc); to respect
  • 17 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 戴

  1. dài
    • to put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc)
    • to respect
    • to bear
    • to support
  2. Dài
    • surname Dai

Radical and structure

戴
Radical 戈 (Kangxi radical 62) · 17 strokes · built from 𢦏 and 異

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

戴 in our stories

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  • 有一天，一位戴眼镜的女士吃了一口，皱着眉头说：“面糊太厚了，酱也太咸。”

    yǒu yì tiān yí wèi dài yǎnjìng de nǚshì chī le yì kǒu zhòu zhe méitóu shuō miànhù tài hòu le jiàng yě tài xián

    One day a woman in glasses took a bite, frowned and said, "The batter's too thick, and the sauce is too salty."

    From the story A second chance HSK 5

  • 奶奶却没有笑。她看了苏菲很久，慢慢地从手腕上取下一只旧玉镯子，戴在了苏菲的手上。

    nǎinai què méiyǒu xiào tā kàn le Sūfēi hěn jiǔ mànmàn de cóng shǒuwàn shàng qǔ xià yì zhī jiù yù zhuózi dài zài le Sūfēi de shǒu shàng

    But Grandma didn't laugh. She looked at Sophie for a long time, then slowly slipped an old jade bracelet off her wrist and put it on Sophie's.

    From the story An old bracelet HSK 6

Stories using 戴

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).