HSK 4 · Verbs

戴 dài “to wear (glasses” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 戴 means

  1. to wear (glasses, a hat, gloves, jewellery)
  2. to put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc)
  3. to respect
  4. to bear
  5. to support

How to say 戴

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale戴dài4th tone, falling

戴 in a sentence

  1. 我注意到她戴着新眼镜。

    Wǒ zhùyì dào tā dài zhe xīn yǎnjìng.

    I noticed that she’s wearing new glasses.

    Sentence #5613609 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 你需要戴安全帽。

    Nǐ xūyào dài ānquánmào.

    You need to wear a hard hat.

    Sentence #11031490 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 昨天的天气很冷，所以我戴了一顶帽子。

    Zuótiān de tiānqì hěn lěng, suǒyǐ wǒ dài le yì dǐng màozi.

    It was very cold yesterday, so I wore a hat.

    Sentence #689784 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 戴 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 戴 (dài) with each of its parts in a different colour
戴dàito put on or wear
  • 十ten · shí
  • 戈halberd · gē
  • 異different

How to write 戴

戴 17 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

戴 (dài) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 戴 (dài). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 戴

Words with 戴

爱戴àidài · to love and respect

More words: Common Verbs

打扰dǎrǎo · to disturb打印dǎyìn · to print (with a printer)打折dǎzhé · to give a discount打针dǎzhēn · to give or have an injection当dāng · to act as调查diàochá · investigation掉diào · to fall丢diū · to lose

FAQs

戴 (dài) means “to wear (glasses, a hat, gloves, jewellery)” or “to put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc)”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it dài: dài with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 戴 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type dai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 戴 from the suggestions. Typing dai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
戴 is an HSK 4 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.