歹 — Chinese character
歹
dǎi
corpse; death; evil, depraved, wicked
- Pinyin
- dǎi
- Radical
- 78 ⽍ (Death)
- Strokes
- 4
- Components
- 一 夕
- Formation
- pictographic — A corpse
- Japanese
- 歹 as a kanji
Common words with 歹
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 歹徒 | dǎi tú | evildoer; malefactor |
| 好歹 | hǎo dǎi | good and bad; most unfortunate occurrence |
| 歹毒 | dǎi dú | vicious; ruthless |
| 不知好歹 | bù zhī hǎo dǎi | unable to differentiate good from bad (idiom); not to know what's good for one |
| 为非作歹 (為非作歹) | wéi fēi zuò dǎi | to break the law and commit crimes (idiom); malefactor; evildoer |
| 歹意 | dǎi yì | evil intent; malice |
| 歹人 | dǎi rén | bad person; evildoer |
| 好说歹说 (好說歹說) | hǎo shuō dǎi shuō | (idiom) to try one's very best to persuade sb; to reason with sb in every way possible |
| 不识好歹 (不識好歹) | bù shí hǎo dǎi | unable to tell good from bad (idiom); undiscriminating |
| 歹势 (歹勢) | dǎi shì | (Tw) excuse me; to be sorry (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [pháinn-sè]) |
| 歹命 | dǎi mìng | (Tw) to have been dealt a hard lot in life (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [pháinn-miā]) |
| 做好做歹 | zuò hǎo zuò dǎi | to persuade using all possible arguments (idiom); to act good cop and bad cop in turn |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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