Chinese Character Wiki
危

wēi

dangerous

Phonosemantic compound. 卩 represents the meaning and 厃 represents the sound.

Components
厃 sound,iconic component

厃  Sound Iconic component

wěi, zhān

  

high and dangerous, look upward

Depicts a person (人) standing precariously on the edge of a cliff (厂).

卩 meaning component

卩  Meaning component

jié

  

person kneeling

Evolution

危 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
危 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
危 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

危  

wēi

dangerous, precarious; high; danger; to endanger; Taiwan pr. [wéi]

危  

Wēi

surname Wei

Most common words with 危
Freq.
Word
Meaning

危险

danger

危机

crisis

危害

to harm

危

danger

危及

to endanger

Component uses

Meaning component in 2 characters (0 verified)

脆 臲

Sound component in 4 characters (0 verified)

跪 詭 诡 桅

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ŋ](r)[o]j

ngjwe

wēi

in danger


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 54.3008% of movies

770th most common character in movies

826th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+5371

Shuowen

“危，在高而懼也。从厃，自卪止之。”


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