挨
áiāi HSK6

near

挨 ái frequency
to suffer verb
to suffer; to endure; to be subjected to something unpleasant

跟紧我，你永远不会挨饿了！

gēn jǐn wǒ, nǐ yǒng​yuǎn bù​huì ái è le!

Stick with me and you’ll never go hungry again!

to stall
to delay; to stall; to drag out or struggle through time
挨 āi
to be next to verb
to get close to; to be next to; to follow in sequence (one by one)

他们在两把铁椅上并肩坐了下来，但没有挨得太近。

tā​men zài liǎng bǎ tiě yǐ shang bìng​jiān zuò le xià​lai, dàn méi​yǒu āi de tài jìn.

They sat down on two iron chairs, side by side but not too close together.

Cross-References

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,012th most common 35.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,969th most common 20.4 per million appears in 11% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
10.9 per million appears in 5% of films
Written text
15.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+6328

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