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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 crisis See 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. |