待
待 in English
- to wait / to treat / to deal with / to need / going to (do sth) / about to / intending to
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 4 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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Mick等待约会的时候靠读杂志打发时间。
Mick killed time by reading a magazine while waiting for his date.
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不要虐待动物。
Don't be cruel to animals.
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他们昨晚设宴招待了我们。
They entertained us at dinner last night.
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他去了伦敦，并在那儿待了一周。
He went to London, where he stayed for a week.
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他在纽约待了三周。
He stayed in New York for three weeks.