呆
dāi HSK5

dull, stupid

呆 (待) dāi frequency
stay verb
to stay or remain in a particular place

我不想在这个城市里呆下去了。

wǒ bù xiǎng zài zhè gè chéng​shì lǐ dāi xià​qù le.

I don't want to stay in this city anymore.

呆 dāi
blank verb
expressionless, dazed, or staring in a stupor

听了这个消息，他整个人都呆住了。

tīng le zhè​ge xiāo​xi, tā zhěng gè rén dōu dāi zhù le.

He was stunned when he heard the news.

foolish adjective
mentally slow, stupid, or dull-witted

那个男孩表情很呆，好像还没反应过来。

nà gè nán​hái biǎo​qíng hěn dāi, hǎo​xiàng hái méi fǎn​yìng guò​lái.

The boy had a blank expression, as if he hadn't quite processed what was happening yet.

呆 (獃) dāi
foolish verb
foolish; stupid

这孩子看起来有点呆。

zhè hái​zi kàn​qǐ​lai yǒu​diǎn dāi.

This child looks a little vacant.

blank verb
expressionless; blank

他坐在窗边发呆。

tā zuò zài chuāng bian fā​dāi.

He sat by the window, staring blankly.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,338th most common 91.7 per million
Movie subtitles
772nd most common 164.6 per million appears in 53% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
208.2 per million appears in 49% of films
Written text
50.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+5446

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)