待

HSK 4#1207 by frequencyradical 彳

dài["v","p"]

to wait; to treat; to deal with; to need; going to (do sth); about to; intending to

dāi["v","p"]

to stay

Examples

我想待一夜。

I'd like to stay for one night.

您想待多久？

How long do you want to stay?

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.