dài

  1. dài adjective dangerous; perilous
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 危险 (CC-CEDICT '殆'; Guoyu '殆' adj 1; Kroll 2015 '殆' 1, p. 74; Unihan '殆'; XHZD '殆' 2, p. 124)
  2. dài adverb nearly; about to
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In this sense, 殆 has the effect of lessening the certainty of an assertion in Literary Chinese (CC-CEDICT '殆'; Guoyu '殆' adv 2; Kroll 2015 '殆' 2, p. 74; Pulleyblank 199, p. 124; XHZD '殆' 1, p. 124)
  3. dài verb to endanger
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Unihan '殆')
  4. dài adjective lazy
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: As a variant of 怠 (Kroll 2015 '殆' 3, p. 74)
  5. dài adjective tired; fatigued
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 疲乏 (Guoyu '殆' adj 2)
  6. dài adverb probably
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 大概 (CC-CEDICT '殆'; Guoyu '殆' adv 1)
  7. dài adverb similar to
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 近似 (Guoyu '殆' adv 3)

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