挨
áiāi HSK6

near

挨 ái frequency
suffer/receive verb
to receive or sustain something unpleasant, such as a physical blow or punishment.

他的手臂上挨了一刀。

tā de shǒu​bì shàng ái le yī dāo.

He was slashed in the arm with a knife.

delay verb
to delay, stall, play for time, or dawdle

别再挨时间了，我们得赶紧走。

bié zài ái shí​jiān le, wǒ​men děi gǎn​jǐn zǒu.

Stop dawdling; we need to leave quickly.

suffer verb
to suffer, endure, or pull through difficult times

他在那段日子里挨了不少苦。

tā zài nà duàn rì​zi lǐ ái le bù​shǎo kǔ.

He suffered a lot during those days.

挨 āi
in order adverb
following in a sequence or succession

大家挨个儿走出了教室。

dà​jiā āi gè​r zǒu​chū le jiào​shì.

Everyone walked out of the classroom one by one.

adjacent verb
to be close to or situated next to

他紧挨着窗户坐。

tā jǐn'āi zhe chuāng​hu zuò.

He sat right next to the window.

Cross-References

Has variant

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