| 赖 | lài | 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 |
| 依赖 | yī lài | to depend on; to be dependent on |
| 信赖 | xìn lài | to trust; to have confidence in; to have faith in; to rely on |
| 达赖 | Dá lài | the Dalai Lama; also written 达赖喇嘛 |
| 赖氨酸 | lài ān suān | lysine (Lys), an essential amino acid |
| 无赖 | wú lài | hoodlum; rascal; rogue; rascally; scoundrelly |
| 倚赖 | yǐ lài | to rely on; to be dependent on |
| 抵赖 | dǐ lài | to deny |
| 达赖喇嘛 | Dá lài lǎ ma | Dalai Lama |
| 不赖 | bù lài | not bad; good; fine |
| 仰赖 | yǎng lài | to rely on |
| 值得信赖 | zhí de xìn lài | trustworthy |
| 克赖斯特彻奇 | Kè lài sī tè chè qí | Christchurch (New Zealand city) |
| 城市依赖症 | chéng shì yī lài zhèng | "urban dependence disease" (sufferers are unwilling to give up city comforts and return to the countryside) |
| 奥尔布赖特 | Ào ěr bù lài tè | (Madeleine) Albright (US Secretary of State) |
| 奥赖恩 | Ào lài ēn | Orion (NASA spacecraft) |
| 好死不如赖活着 | hǎo sǐ bù rú lài huó zhe | Better a bad life than a good death (idiom) |
| 富布赖特 | fù bù lài tè | Fulbright (scholarship) |
| 康多莉扎・赖斯 | Kāng duō lì zhā · Lài sī | Rice (name); Condoleezza Rice (1954-) US Secretary of State from 2005 |
| 恶叉白赖 | è chā bái lài | evil behavior (idiom); brazen villainy |
| 打赖 | dǎ lài | to deny; to disclaim; to disavow |
| 撒赖 | sā lài | to make a scene; to raise hell |
| 有赖于 | yǒu lài yú | to rely on; to depend on |
| 死乞白赖 | sǐ qi bái lài | to pester someone again and again |
| 死皮赖脸 | sǐ pí lài liǎn | brazen faced (idiom); shameless |
| 源・赖朝 | Yuán · Lài cháo | MINAMOTO no Yoritomo (1147-1199), Japanese warlord and founder of the Kamakura shogunate 镰仓幕府 |
| 狡赖 | jiǎo lài | to deny (through sophism) |
| 百无聊赖 | bǎi wú liáo lài | bored to death (idiom); bored stiff; overcome with boredom |
| 端赖 | duān lài | to depend ultimately on (Taiwan usage); absolutely reliant on |
| 耍赖 | shuǎ lài | to act unreasonably and shamelessly; to get away with something; to openly or brazenly act dishonestly (breaking an agreement, cheating etc) |
| 聊赖 | liáo lài | to suffer tedium |
| 语境依赖性 | yǔ jìng yī lài xìng | context dependency |
| 诬赖 | wū lài | to accuse falsely |
| 赖以 | lài yǐ | to rely on; to depend on |
| 赖婚 | lài hūn | to go back on a marriage contract; to repudiate an engagement |
| 赖安 | Lài ān | Ryan (name) |
| 赖床 | lài chuáng | to have a lie-in; to dawdle in bed |
| 赖斯 | Lài sī | Rice (name); Condoleezza Rice (1954-) US Secretary of State 2005-2009 |
| 赖昌星 | Lài Chāng xīng | Lai Changxing (1958-), notorious Xiamen mafia boss involved in large scale corruption and smuggling, extradited from Canada back to China in 2008 |
| 赖校族 | lài xiào zú | campus dwellers (slang); graduates who cannot break away from campus life |
| 赖特 | Lài tè | Wright (name) |
| 赖皮 | lài pí | shameless; (slang) rascal |
| 赖声川 | Lài Shēng chuān | Lai Shengchuan (1954-), US-Taiwanese dramatist and director |
| 赖脸 | lài liǎn | to be shameless |
| 赖账 | lài zhàng | to renege on a debt |
