扫榻以待 sǎotàyǐdài to roll out the welcome mat Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 扫榻 掃榻 sǎotà to dust a bed (literary) to sweep or dust off a bed or couch; to clean a couch以 yǐ prepositionconjunction in order to in order to; so as to; used to connect two phrases where the second is the purpose of the first待 dài verb to wait to wait for; to await