呆
dāi HSK5

dull, stupid

呆 dāi frequency
to stay verb
to stay; to remain; to linger

我只是想一个人呆着。

wǒ zhǐ​shì xiǎng yí​ge​rén dāi zhe.

I just want to be alone.

他在监狱中呆了十年。

tā zài jiān​yù zhōng dāi le shí nián.

He spent ten years in prison.

surname
a Chinese surname
呆 dāi
variant 獃
foolish noun
foolish; stupid; slow-witted
to stare verb
to stare blankly; to be in a daze; to be stunned; to be struck dumb
blank
blank; expressionless; sluggish; wooden

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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
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)