HSK Guide

带帶 dài — a belt, a sash, a strap, a band; a zone, a region; to carry, to bring, to take along; to lead, to look after

dài (fourth tone, falling)

Traditional: 帶

a belt, a sash, a strap, a band; a zone, a region; to carry, to bring, to take along; to lead, to look after

9 strokesRadical 巾Frequency #301
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Pinyin

  • dài (fourth tone, falling)

a belt, a sash, a strap, a band; a zone, a region; to carry, to bring, to take along; to lead, to look after

Character breakdown

  • 巾meaning partno entry yetThe cloth radical at the foot: the sash itself, hanging from the waist.
  • 帯shape partno entry yetThe strokes above the cloth are the belt seen from the front, with the ornaments and tassels hung along it. The whole character is one picture and has no phonetic.

Mnemonic

A sash hung with ornaments, the cloth 巾 at the bottom. From the belt round the waist come both a band of territory — 热带 the tropics — and the verb, because what you carry is what you have belted on: 带钱, 带伞, 带孩子 to look after children, 带来 to bring along.

A memory aid written by HSK Guide editors. It is not an etymology and does not describe the historical origin of the character.

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