賴
làiLài HSK6

depend on

赖 (賴) lài frequency
blame verb
to shift the blame onto someone else or to disclaim responsibility

你自己做错了事，不能赖别人。

nǐ zì​jǐ zuò​cuò le shì, bù néng lài bié​ren.

You can't blame others for your own mistakes.

linger verb
to stay or remain in a place, usually in a lazy or reluctant manner

他一直赖在被窝里不肯起床。

tā yī​zhí lài zài bèi​wō lǐ bù kěn qǐ​chuáng.

He stayed snuggled in bed and refused to get up.

bad verb
of poor quality; rascally or unscrupulous

这批货的质量真赖。

zhè pī huò de zhì​liàng zhēn lài.

The quality of this batch of goods is really bad.

depend verb
to rely or depend on

万物生长赖太阳。

wàn​wù shēng​zhǎng lài tài​yang.

All things depend on the sun for growth.

赖 (賴) Lài
Lai proper name
a common Chinese surname

赖先生在这里工作。

Lài xiān​sheng zài zhè​lǐ gōng​zuò.

Mr. Lai works here.

LINE adjective
Taiwanese slang for the LINE messaging app

你可以加我的赖吗？

nǐ kě​yǐ jiā wǒ de Lài ma?

Can you add me on Line?

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,365th most common 88.5 per million
Movie subtitles
1,372nd most common 53.0 per million appears in 22% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
9.99 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
16.3 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Simplified
赖
Strokes
16
Unicode
U+8CF4

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