赖 (賴) lài

1. lài verb to depend on; to rely on
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 依靠; as in 依赖 (ABC 'lài' 赖 v 1, p. 526; CC-CEDICT '賴'; Guoyu '賴' v 1; Kroll 2015 '賴' 2, p. 251; NCCED '赖' 1, p. 942; Unihan '賴')
2. lài verb to stay at a place without moving
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'lài' 赖 v 2, p. 526; Guoyu '賴' v 2; NCCED '赖' 4, p. 942)
3. lài verb to accuse falsely; to wrongly blame
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 讹指; as in 诬赖 (ABC 'lài' 赖 v 6, p. 526; Guoyu '賴' v 5; Unihan '賴')
4. lài verb to not admit an error; to deny fault; to be shameless
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'lài' 赖 v 4, p. 526; Guoyu '賴' v 3; NCCED '赖' 2, p. 942)
5. lài verb to not repay a debt; to renege
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 拖欠 (ABC 'lài' 赖 v 5, p. 526; Guoyu '賴' v 4; Kroll 2015 '賴' 2, p. 251)
6. lài adjective bad
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 不好 (ABC 'lài' 赖 sv 1, p. 526; Guoyu '賴' adj; NCCED '赖' 3, p. 942)
7. lài adverb luckily
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 幸而 (Guoyu '賴' adv)
8. lài noun profit
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 利润 (Guoyu '賴' n 1; Kroll 2015 '賴' 1, p. 251)
9. lài proper noun Lai
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (ABC 'lài' 赖 n, p. 526; Guoyu '賴' n 2)
10. lài verb to procrastinate
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (ABC 'lài' 赖 v 3, p. 526)

Contained in

• 达赖(達賴) Dalai Lama
• 惫赖(憊賴) naughty; cheeky
• 倚赖(倚賴) to rely on; to be dependent on
• 借赖(借賴) to rely
• 赖安(賴安) Ryan
• 死皮赖脸(死皮賴臉) brazen faced; shameless
• 耍无赖(耍無賴) to act shamelessly; to behave in a way that leaves others tut-tutting and shaking their heads in disapproval
• 赖仗(賴仗) to trust; to depend on
• 富布赖特(富布賴特) Fulbright (scholarship)
• 撒赖(撒賴) to make a scene; to raise hell
• 赖床(賴床) to have a lie-in; to dawdle in bed
• 仗赖(仗賴) to trust; to depend on
• 赖校族(賴校族) campus dwellers; graduates who cannot break away from campus life
• 信赖(信賴) to confide; to trust
• 狡赖(狡賴) to deny in an evasive way
• 赖特(賴特) Wright
• 百无聊赖(百無聊賴) bored to death; bored stiff; overcome with boredom
• 赖以(賴以) to rely on; to depend on
• 好死不如赖活着(好死不如賴活著) better a bad life than a good death
• 赖脸(賴臉) to be shameless
• 赖斯(賴斯) Rice
• 城市依赖症(城市依賴症) urban dependence disease
• 抵赖(抵賴) to deny; to refuse
• 不赖(不賴) not bad; good; fine
• 端赖(端賴) to depend ultimately on (Tw); absolutely reliant on
• 恶叉白赖(惡叉白賴) evil behavior; brazen villainy
• 仰赖(仰賴) to rely on
• 有赖于(有賴於) to rely on; to depend on
• 耍赖(耍賴) to act shamelessly; to refuse to acknowledge that one has lost the game, or made a promise etc; to act dumb; to act as if something never happened
• 值得信赖(值得信賴) trustworthy
• 依赖(依賴) to depend on
• 聊赖(聊賴) to suffer tedium
• 诬赖(誣賴) to accuse falsely
• 赖比瑞亚(賴比瑞亞) Liberia
• 老赖(老賴) debt dodger
• 赖婚(賴婚) to go back on a marriage contract; to repudiate an engagement
• 无赖(無賴) a hoodlum; a rascal
• 语境依赖性(語境依賴性) context dependency
• 达赖喇嘛(達賴喇嘛) Dalai Lama
• 赖氨酸(賴氨酸) lysine (Lys)
• 讬赖(託賴) on the basis of
• 赖帐(賴帳) to avoid paying a bill
• 打赖(打賴) to deny; to disclaim; to disavow

Also contained in

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• 第二回 Chapter 93 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 29
• 第二回 Chapter 45 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 18
• 昭公 Lord Zhao The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 12
• 襄公 Lord Xiang The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 12
• 第二回 Chapter 47 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 12
• 第二回 Chapter 94 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 10
• 卷21下 獻文六王下 Volume 21b: Emperor Xianwen's Six Princes 2 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 8
• 卷三百二十四 列傳第二百十二 外國五 占城 真臘 暹羅 瓜哇 三佛齊 Volume 324 Biographies 212: Foreign States 5 - Champa, Khmer Empire, Siam, Java, Srivijaya History of Ming 明史 — count: 8
• Full Text Canon of Supreme Mystery 太玄經 — count: 8
• 第二回 Chapter 118 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 8

Collocations

• 赖陛下 (賴陛下) 方今海內賴陛下厚恩 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷五 貴德 Chapter 5: Valuing Virtue — count: 10
• 兆民赖 (兆民賴) 兆民賴之 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 呂刑 Zhou Shu - Marquis of Lu on Punishments — count: 10
• 赖宗庙 (賴宗庙) 賴宗廟之靈 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《秦始皇本紀》 Annals of Qin Shi Huang — count: 8
• 赖天 (賴天) 皇子賴天 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《三王世家》 House of the Three Kings — count: 6
• 不足赖 (不足賴) 必得之事不足賴也 — Guanzi 管子, 形勢第二 Chapter 2: Circumstances — count: 5
• 赖社稷 (賴社稷) 吾賴社稷之神靈 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 4
• 民赖 (民賴) 民賴其慶 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《周本紀》 Annals of Zhou — count: 4
• 今赖 (今賴) 至于今賴之 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 4
• 赖天地 (賴天地) 賴天地之靈 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《孝文本紀》 Annals of the Xiaowen Emperor — count: 3
• 赖子 (賴子) 小國賴子 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 3