殆 dài

1. dài adjective dangerous / perilous
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   
2. dài adverb nearly / maybe
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In this sense, 殆 has the effect of lessening the certainty of an assertion in Literary Chinese (Pulleyblank 199, p. 124).

Contained in

殆尽 、 危殆 、 丧失殆尽

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷五十四 楊震列傳 Volume 54: Biography of Yang Zhen Book of Later Han 《後漢書》 — count: 13
• 法法第十六 Chapter 16: Fa Fa Guanzi 《管子》 — count: 10
• Daode Jing 《道德經》 Daode Jing 《道德經》 — count: 9
• 《徐無鬼》 Xu Wu-gui Zhuangzi 《莊子》 — count: 7
• 卷十一 Scroll 11 Wenxuan 《文選》 — count: 7
• 卷第二 黃帝篇 Chapter 2: The Yellow Emperor Liezi 《列子》 — count: 7
• 卷二十八 志第十八 五行中 Volume 28 Treatises 18: Five Elements Part Two Book of Jin 《晉書》 — count: 7
• 《人間世》 Man in the World, Associated with other Men Zhuangzi 《莊子》 — count: 6
• 樞言第十二 Chapter 12: Pivotal Words Guanzi 《管子》 — count: 6
• 卷三百十八 列傳第七十七 張方平 王拱辰 張昪 趙槩 胡宿 Volume 318 Biographies 77: Zhang Fangping, Wang Gongchen, Zhang Bian, Zhao Gai, Hu Su History of Song 《宋史》 — count: 6

Collocations

• 殆不可 (殆不可) 殆不可伐也 — The Book of Rites 《禮記》, 《檀弓下》 Tan Gong II — count: 6
• 殆可 (殆可) 子殆可與敖為友乎 — Huainanzi 《淮南子》, 卷十二　道應訓 Chapter 12: Responses of the Way — count: 4
• 兵殆 (兵殆) 然而兵殆于垂沙 — Huainanzi 《淮南子》, 卷十五　兵略訓 Chapter 15: Military Planning — count: 4
• 阙殆 (闕殆) 多見闕殆 — The Analects of Confucius 《論語》, 2. 《為政》 Wei Zheng — count: 3
• 殆不如 (殆不如) 殆不如父重 — Garden of Stories 《說苑》, 卷十九 修文 Chapter 19: Cultivation and Education — count: 3
• 疑殆 (疑殆) 拙者疑殆 — Records of the Grand Historian 《史記》, 《扁鵲倉公列傳》 Biographies of Bian Que and the Duke of Cang — count: 3
• 殆天 (殆天) 沛公殆天授 — Records of the Grand Historian 《史記》, 《留侯世家》 House of Marquis of Liu — count: 3
• 殆不见 (殆不見) 殆不見其氣 — Records of the Grand Historian 《史記》, 《孝武本紀》 Annals of the Xiaowu Emperor — count: 3
• 曰殆 (曰殆) 亦曰殆哉 — Book of Documents 《尚書》, 周書 秦誓 Zhou Shu - Speech of the Marquis of Qin — count: 3
• 殆中国 (殆中國) 彊殆中國 — Xunzi 《荀子》, 王霸篇第十一 Chapter 11: Rulers and Tyrants — count: 2