赖 / 賴
lài
Meaning
- to depend on
- to hang on in a place
- bad
- to renege (on promise)
- to disclaim
- to rat (on debts)
- rascally
- to blame
- to put the blame on
- surname Lai
- (colloquial) LINE messaging app
Example sentences
其鄄城、东阿、范县三处，赖荀彧、程昱二人设计相连，死守城郭。
其鄄城、東阿、范縣三處，賴荀彧、程昱二人設計相連，死守城郭。
qí juàn chéng、 dōng ē、 fàn xiàn sān chù， lài xún yù、 chéng yù èr rén shè jì xiāng lián， sǐ shǒu chéng guō。
The three locations of Juancheng, Dong'e, and Fanxian were connected by a plan devised by Xun Yu and Cheng Yu, who defended the city to the death.
好死不如赖活着
好死不如賴活着
hǎo sǐ bù rú lài huó zhe
Better to live a wretched life than to die a good death