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Lài
HSK 6freq #5777

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Lài
  1. 1.surname Lai
  2. 2.(Tw) (coll.) LINE messaging app
lài
  1. 1.variant of 赖[lài]
lài
  1. 1.to depend on
  2. 2.to hang on in a place
  3. 3.bad
  4. 4.to renege (on promise)
  5. 5.to disclaim
  6. 6.to rat (on debts)
  7. 7.rascally
  8. 8.to blame
  9. 9.to put the blame on

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.son
  2. 2.to leave out; to be missing; to omit
  3. 3.to leave behind; to forget to bring
  4. 4.to fall behind; to lag behind

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Etymology

Possibly from 兒 (OC *ŋje, “son”) (Schuessler, 2007). Alternatively, Sagart (2002) treats it as a semantic broadening of 孻/𡥧 (“youngest son”) in a language ancestral to Hakka and Gan.

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