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挨

āi

HSK 6 Character

What 挨 means

1. in order; in sequence
2. close to; adjacent to

Other readings

挨 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• áito suffer; to endure; to pull through (hard times); to delay; to stall; to play for time;

Example sentences

• 他挨了骂。
  He was scolded.
• 我过了难挨的一天。
  Wǒ guò le nán ái de yī tiān.
  I had a hard day.
• 我们村挨近火车站。
  Our village is close to the railway station.
• 世界上许多人在挨饿。
  Shìjiè shàng xǔduō rén zài ái'è.
  Many people are suffering from hunger around the world.
• 每年，这个机构组织很多会议的志工挨家挨户地卖菲仕兰书。
  Měinián, zhège jīgòu zǔzhī hěn duō huìyì de zhìgōng āijiā'āihù de mài fēi shì lán shū.
  Every year, the organisation organises a number of meetings of volunteers who go door-to-door to sell Frisian books.
• 每年，这个机构组织很多会议的志工挨家挨户地卖弗里斯兰语书。
  Every year, the organisation organises a number of meetings of volunteers who go door-to-door to sell Frisian books.

Words starting with 挨

• 挨打ái dǎto take a beating; to come under attack
• 挨着āi zhenear
• 挨个āi gèone by one; in turn
• 挨饿ái èto go hungry; to endure starvation; famished
• 挨骂ái màto receive a scolding
• 挨家挨户āi jiā āi hùto go from house to house
• 挨揍ái zòuto be beaten; to take a drubbing; buffeted
• 挨近āi jìnto approach; to get close to; to sneak up on
• 挨宰ái zǎito get ripped off
• 挨家āi jiāfrom house to house, one by one
• 挨延ái yánto delay; to procrastinate; to play for time
• 挨户āi hùfrom house to house; from door to door
• 挨批ái pīto be criticized; to suffer blame
• 挨挤ái jǐto crowd together; to jostle; squeezed
• 挨擦āi cāto press against; to nuzzle up to
• 挨整ái zhěngto be the target of an attack
• 挨次āi cìin sequence; in the proper order; one by one
• 挨罚ái fáto be punished; to be fined
• 挨说ái shuōto get scolded
• 挨踢āi tīinformation technology (IT) (loanword)
• 挨边āi biānto keep close to the edge; near the mark; close to (the true figure)
• 挨门āi ménfrom door to door, one by one
• 挨斗ái dòuto suffer censure; denounced
• 挨不上āi bù shàngto be irrelevant; to be superfluous

Words containing 挨

• 忍饥挨饿rěn jī ái èstarving; famished
• 受冻挨饿shòu dòng ái èsee 挨饿受冻

Characters built on 矣

These share the phonetic component 矣 (yǐ), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 埃āidust; dirt; angstrom
• 唉āiinterjection or grunt of agreement or recognition (e.g. yes, it's me!); to sigh
• 欸āi(indicating response); (sadly sighing); also pr. èi

Characters that look like 挨

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 被bèiquilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune)
• 做zuòto make; to produce; to write; to compose; to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc)
• 埃āidust; dirt; angstrom
• 液yè(bound form) a liquid; also pr. yì
• 骇hàito astonish; to startle; to hack (computing, loanword)
• 骏jùnspirited horse

Sounds the same

Read āi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 哎hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation)
• 唉interjection or grunt of agreement or recognition (e.g. yes, it's me!); to sigh
• 哀(bound form) sorrow; grief; pity; (bound form) to grieve for; to pity; to lament…
• 埃dust; dirt; angstrom
• 欸(indicating response); (sadly sighing); also pr. èi
• 銰character used in Korea in former times to represent the syllable "ngai"
• 锿einsteinium (chemistry)
• 娭see 娭姐; granny (dialect); respectful form of address for older lady