dǎi

bad

wicked; evil; Kangxi radical 78

a picture of 歹 → death and decay

The character originally depicted a bare, picked-over bone — the remnant of a corpse. That image of death and rot extended naturally to its modern sense of wickedness and evil.

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他从不做事,是个好人。

tā cóng bù zuò dǎi shì , shì gè hǎo rén 。

He never does wicked things; he is a good person.

那个徒被警察当场抓住了。

nà gè dǎi tú bèi jǐng chá dāng chǎng zhuā zhù le 。

That evildoer was caught on the spot by the police.

Words with 歹

不问好歹

bù wèn hǎo dǎi

no matter what may happen (idiom)

不知好歹

bù zhī hǎo dǎi

unable to differentiate good from bad (idiom)

不识好歹

bù shí hǎo dǎi

unable to tell good from bad (idiom)

做好做歹

zuò hǎo zuò dǎi

to persuade using all possible arguments (idiom); to act good cop and bad cop in turn

好歹

hǎo dǎi

good and bad

好说歹说

hǎo shuō dǎi shuō

(idiom) to try one's very best to persuade sb; to reason with sb in every way possible

歹人

dǎi rén

bad person

歹势

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])

歹徒

dǎi tú

evildoer

歹意

dǎi yì

evil intent

歹毒

dǎi dú

vicious

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