危
Meanings
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- 1.surname Wei
- 1.danger
- 2.to endanger
- 3.Taiwan pr. [wéi]
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Wiktionary
- 1.dangerous
- 2.precarious; high
- 3.dying
- 4.upright; proper
- 5.to endanger; to put in danger
- 6.to fear; to be uneasy
- 7.roof
- 8.(astronomy) the Roof, a Chinese constellation near Aquarius and Pegasus
- 9.Danger! (Used usually alone by one to warn or tell other participants or viewers of a video, video game, etc. that one or several persons or things are in danger and dying for help. Originated from a video game.)
- 10.a surname
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 厃 (“person on a cliff or mountain”) + 卩 (“kneeling person”). Written like 𡴲 during the Warring States period, an ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 人 (“person”) + 山 (“mountain”). Starostin reconstructs Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋō̆j (~-ō̆l) (“high, rise”) and compares 危 to Burmese ငွား (ngwa:, “be large, great, be high, to project prominently above and beyond others”), Jingpho [script needed] (ŋoi, “to rise, as a hill”); & possibly Proto-Kiranti *ŋo-. Schuessler (2007) notes that Chinese and Written Burmese can be reconciled by assuming an ST final *-l; furthermore, 危 (OC *ŋoi) may be a vocalic variant of 巍 (OC *ŋui), which in turn is related to 魏 (OC *ŋuih).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
它是危險的!
It's dangerous!
他們有危險。
They're in danger.
危險已過去。
The danger is over.
湯姆有危險。
Tom is in danger.
火總是危險的。
Fire is always dangerous.
那條河是危險的。
That river is dangerous.
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Derived terms
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