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āi
HSK 6freq #5720

Meanings

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āi
  1. 1.in order; in sequence
  2. 2.close to; adjacent to
ái
  1. 1.to suffer; to endure
  2. 2.to pull through (hard times)
  3. 3.to delay; to stall; to play for time; to dawdle

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.to hit from behind; to hit the back
  2. 2.to get close to; to be next to
  3. 3.to depend on; to rely on
  4. 4.to crowd; to push and squeeze
  5. 5.to follow in sequence; to be someone's turn; to go one by one
  6. 6.at
  7. 7.to lean on
  8. 8.to grind
  9. 9.to play (a stringed instrument)
  10. 10.to push
  11. 11.to suffer; to endure; to put up with
  12. 12.to drag out; to delay; to stall
  13. 13.to struggle to pull through; to wait (for a long time)
  14. 14.to drag on; to scrabble for a living

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *qlɯːʔ, *qrɯː, *qrɯːʔ): semantic 扌 + phonetic 矣 (OC *ɢlɯʔ).

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Components

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