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[1] [adj] dangerous; precarious; critical [2] [v] endanger; imperil; jeopardize [3] [adj] precipitous; towering; high Pinyin wei1 is China reading; wei2 is Taiwan reading.
Default PoS:  Additional PoS:  Stroke count: 6
Level: 1
Radical: 卩 (#26)
This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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危險
ngai4 him2 = danger
危機
ngai4 gei1 = crisis (singular); crises (plural)
危害
ngai4 hoi6 = to jeopardise; to harm; to endanger
脫離危險
tyut3 lei4 ngai4 him2 = to be out of danger; to be out of the woods
安危
on1 ngai4 = safety-and-danger
危險性
ngai4 him2 sing3 = chanciness; dangerous nature
危樓
ngai4 lau4 = dangerous premises
危危乎
ngai4 ngai4 fu4 = collapsing 粵
病危
beng6 ngai4 = be critically ill; be terminally ill
擺脫危機
baai2 tyut3 ngai4 gei1 = to break out of a crisisSee all 50 compounds (CantoDict reports 47 compounds in total, which would seem to be an error - please report this on the CantoDict forum) |
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Showing all 8 examples containing 危
吸煙危害健康, 只要每日一枝, 已經足以致命
Smoking is very harmful; as long as you smoke one cigarette a day, it's enough to cause death
危難中，"有子不需父上前"；搶險時，"上陣不離父子兵"。
A son would would protect his father and face the danger himself; but in times of emergency, both son and father would fight the battle together.
我最近戒咗煙，吸煙危害健康吖嘛! 粵
I've recently quit smoking, 'cause smoking is hazardous to health, right ! [吖嘛 is used here to reason out a statement that seems evidently true.] Legend 國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese. 粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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Decimal representation of this word: 危
Unicode code for this character: U+5371 (off-site link)
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Decimal representation of this word: 危
Unicode code for this character: U+5371 (off-site link)
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