dài
dangerous
Phonosemantic compound. 歹 represents the meaning and 台 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 殆
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
dangerous | ||
nearly exhausted | ||
to come unscathed through a hundred battles (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[SūnzǐBīngfǎ]); to win every fight | ||
grave danger |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*lˤəʔ | dojX | dài | danger |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3142nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+6B86 |
Shuowen | “殆,危也。从歺,台聲。” |
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