贷
dài HSK5

lend

贷 (貸) dài
excuse verb
to make excuses or to shirk responsibility

对于任何贪污公款的行为，法律必将严惩不贷。

duì​yú rèn​hé tān​wū gōng​kuǎn de xíng​wéi, fǎ​lǜ bì jiāng yán​chéng bù dài.

The law will punish any embezzlement of public funds with the utmost severity.

forgive verb
to pardon, show leniency, or remit a penalty

凡是违法乱纪的人，都必须受到法律制裁，绝不宽贷。

fán​shì wéi​fǎ​luàn​jì de rén, dōu bì​xū shòu​dào fǎ​lǜ zhì​cái, jué bù kuān dài.

Anyone who violates the law and discipline must be punished by law; no leniency will be shown.

loan verb
to lend or borrow money, typically involving interest; a financial loan

他向银行贷了一笔款子，用于扩大生产。

tā xiàng yín​háng dài le yī bǐ kuǎn​zi, yòng​yú kuò​dà shēng​chǎn.

He took out a loan from the bank to expand production.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,605th most common 60.9 per million
Movie subtitles
2,123rd most common 15.9 per million appears in 7% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.97 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
30.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Traditional
貸
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+8D37

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