危 (wēi)
danger; dangerous; precarious
How 危 is written
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- ⺈ — knife
- Traditional
- 危
- Simplified
- 危 (unchanged)
Components
- ⺈ knife
- 厂 cliff
- 乚 second
- ㇆ N/A
Common words using 危
- 危害 wēihài
- to jeopardize; to harm; to endanger
- 危機 wēijī
- crisis; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 危險 wēixiǎn
- danger; dangerous
- 危及 wēijí
- to endanger; to jeopardize; a danger (to life, national security etc)
- 危急 wēijí
- critical; desperate (situation)
- 危房 wēifáng
- decrepit house
- 危樓 wēilóu
- dangerous housing; building that is about to collapse
- 危難 wēinàn
- calamity
- 安危 ānwēi
- safety and danger; safety
- 居安思危 jūānsīwēi
- to think of danger in times of safety; to be vigilant in peacetime (idiom)
- 病危 bìngwēi
- be critically ill; be terminally ill
- 乘人之危 chéngrénzhīwēi
- to take advantage of sb's precarious position
危 in a sentence
在馬路上玩很危險。
Zài mǎlù shàng wán hěn wēixiǎn.
“It is dangerous to play on the road.”
How common is 危?
危 is the 824th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 85.9% of all running text.
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