殆 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)

Contained in

• 殆尽(殆盡) to be nearly exhausted; to have practically nothing left
• 知彼知己，百战不殆(知彼知己，百戰不殆) knowing the enemy and yourself will get you unscathed through a hundred battles
• 殆哉圾乎 very dangerous
• 胜乃不殆(勝乃不殆) victory will not be in doubt
• 知己知彼，百战不殆(知己知彼，百戰不殆) know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated
• 百战不殆(百戰不殆) to come unscathed through a hundred battles
• 丧失殆尽(喪失殆盡) to be used up; to be exhausted
• 学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆(學而不思則罔，思而不學則殆) To learn without thinking is confusing, to think without learning is dangerous (Confucius)
• 危殆 grave danger; in jeopardy; in a critical condition
• 多见阙殆(多見闕殆) observe extensively and avoid things which are dangerous
• 车殆马烦(車殆馬煩) an exhausting journey

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• 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
• 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
• 卷第二 黃帝篇 Chapter 2: The Yellow Emperor Liezi 列子 — count: 7
• 卷十一 Scroll 11 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 7
• 《徐無鬼》 Xu Wu-gui Zhuangzi 莊子 — count: 7
• 卷五十一 Scroll 51 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 6
• 卷二十七　韓二 Chapter 27: Han II Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 身殆 (身殆) 則國危身殆 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 三守第十六 Chapter 16: Three Precautions — count: 2
• 殆后人 (殆後人) 殆後人以知章人微 — Guanzi 管子, Notes — count: 2