Dictionary › 呆
呆
dāi
What 呆 means
- foolish; stupid
- expressionless; blank
- variant of {待|dāi}
Other readings
Example sentences
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我在发呆。Wǒ zài fādāi.I'm out of it.
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你个呆瓜！You're an idiot.
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我是个书呆子。Wǒ shì ge shūdāizi.I'm a swot.
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他们要呆多久？How long will they stay?
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我呆了一会儿。I stayed for a while.
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我㝉愿呆在这里。I'd rather stay here.
Words starting with 呆
- 呆滞dāi zhìdull; lifeless; sluggish
- 呆住dāi zhùto be dumbfounded; to be astonished
- 呆板dāi bǎnstiff; inflexible; also pr. ái bǎn
- 呆若木鸡dāi ruò mù jīlit. dumb as a wooden chicken (idiom); fig. dumbstruck
- 呆子dāi zifool; sucker
- 呆根dāi gēn(literary) idiot
- 呆瓜dāi guāidiot; fool
- 呆站dāi zhànto stand idly
- 呆账dāi zhàngbad debt
- 呆傻dāi shǎstupid; foolish; dull-witted
- 呆头呆脑dāi tóu dāi nǎooafish; dull-witted
- 呆笨dāi bèndimwitted
- 呆扳手dāi bān shǒuopen spanner; open end spanner; flat spanner
- 呆萌dāi méngendearingly silly
- 呆会儿dāi huì rvariant of 待会儿
- 呆帐dāi zhàngvariant of 呆账
Words containing 呆
- 发呆fā dāito stare blankly; to be stunned; to be lost in thought
- 目瞪口呆mù dèng kǒu dāi(idiom) dumbstruck; stupefied; stunned
- 惊呆jīng dāistupefied; stunned
- 痴呆chī dāistupid; dull; (medicine) dementia
- 书呆子shū dāi zibookworm; pedant; bookish fool
- 看呆kàn dāito gape at; to stare blankly; to stare in rapture
- 天然呆tiān rán dāi(loanword from Japanese "tennen boke") space cadet; muddleheaded
- 痴呆症chī dāi zhèngdementia
- 老年痴呆lǎo nián chī dāisenile dementia; Alzheimer's disease
- 早老性痴呆zǎo lǎo xìng chī dāi(colloquial) Alzheimer's disease
- 老年痴呆症lǎo nián chī dāi zhèngsenile dementia; Alzheimer's disease
- 老年性痴呆症lǎo nián xìng chī dāi zhèngsenile dementia
- 帅呆了shuài dāi leawesome; brilliant; magnificent
- 目光呆滞mù guāng dāi zhìto have a lifeless look in one's eyes (idiom)
- 目睁口呆mù zhēng kǒu dāistunned; dumbstruck
- 矮呆病ǎi dāi bìngcretinism
- 目怔口呆mù zhēng kǒu dāilit. eye startled, mouth struck dumb (idiom); stunned; stupefied
Characters built on 木
These share the phonetic component 木 (mù), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.
- 采cǎito pick; to pluck; to collect
- 材cáimaterial; timber; ability
- 概gài(bound form) general; approximate; without exception; categorically…
- 柏bǎicedar; cypress; Taiwan pr. bó
- 寨zhàistronghold; stockade; camp
- 柴cháifirewood; lean (of meat); thin (of a person)
- 栽zāito plant; to grow; to insert; to erect (e.g. a bus stop sign); to impose sth on sb
- 柰nàiChinese pearleaf crabapple (Malus asiatica)
Characters that look like 呆
Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.
- 来láito come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)…
- 果guǒfruit; result; resolute
- 采cǎito pick; to pluck; to collect
- 米mǐuncooked rice; meter (unit of length); (slang) Chinese yuan
- 卷juànscroll; book; volume
- 秉bǐngto grasp; to hold; to maintain
Sounds the same
Read dāi, tone for tone, but written differently.
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