HSK Guide

部首 171to seize, to catch up with; a subordinate, a servant

dài (fourth tone, falling)

to seize, to catch up with; a subordinate, a servant

部首 1718 画0 汉字

Where the shape comes from

A hand reaching out to close around a tail, catching an animal that was trying to get away — the grasp giving the word its core sense of seizing, catching up with. Adding a path beneath it gives 逮, to catch, to arrest, walking down someone until the hand can close on them; and it names subordination itself in 隶属, to be affiliated with, under another’s grasp.

汉字 filed under

No published character on HSK Guide is filed under this radical yet. 汉字库.