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Mythic Mandarin

赖 (lài): meaning and stroke order

赖 (lài) means to depend on, to hang on in a place, bad, to renege (on promise), to disclaim.

赖

Simplified
赖
Traditional
賴, 頼
Pinyin
lài

Stroke order of 赖

赖

  • Lài surname Lai; (Tw) (coll.) LINE messaging app
  • lài to depend on; to hang on in a place
  • lài variant of 賴|赖[lai4]
  • 13 strokes
  • Traditional form: 賴

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 赖

  1. lài Traditional 賴
    • to depend on
    • to hang on in a place
    • bad
    • to renege (on promise)
    • to disclaim
    • to rat (on debts)
    • rascally
    • to blame
    • to put the blame on
  2. Lài Traditional 賴
    • surname Lai
    • (Tw) (coll.) LINE messaging app
  3. lài Traditional 頼
    • variant of 賴|赖[lai4]

Radical and structure

赖
Radical 贝 (Kangxi radical 154) in its simplified form · 13 strokes · 束 on the left, 负 on the right

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.

Words with 赖

赖 in our stories

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  • 有一户人家的族谱上，竟然也记着一句话：“光绪某年大饥，赖米店主人暗中接济，得以活命。”

    yǒu yí hù rénjiā de zúpǔ shàng jìngrán yě jì zhe yí jù huà Guāngxù mǒu nián dà jī lài mǐ diàn zhǔrén ànzhōng jiējì déyǐ huómìng

    In one family's genealogy there was, astonishingly, this line: "In a year of great famine under Guangxu, we survived thanks to the secret help of the rice-shop owner."

    From the story Words written in rice water HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 赖

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).