待
dàidāi HSK3

wait, stay, treat

待 dài frequency
to wait verb
to wait for; to await
to treat verb
to treat; to deal with; to entertain or receive guests

我待他们就像自己的孩子一般。

wǒ dài tā​men jiù xiàng zì​jǐ de hái​zi yī​bān.

I treat them just like my own children.

to need
to need; to require; to be in need of
about to
about to; intending to; going to do something
surname
a Chinese surname
to rely on
to depend on; to rely on; to trust to
to defend against
to defend against; to resist; to be prepared for (an attack)
[a]
auxiliary word used in the middle or at the end of a sentence for emphasis, similar to 啊 a
待 dāi
to stay verb
to stay; to remain; to linger

那才是你该待的地方。

nà cái shì nǐ gāi dāi de dì​fang.

That's where you belong.

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Variant of

Frequency
Character
Written text
673rd most common 298.5 per million
Movie subtitles
425th most common 348.3 per million appears in 82% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
181.9 per million appears in 46% of films
Written text
70.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+5F85

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