危
危 — wi
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 위태할 위
- Romanization
- wi
- English
- dangerous, precarious; high; 12th lunar mansion, determinative star α Aquarii (Sadalmelik)
- Mandarin
- wēi
- Japanese on'yomi
- キ, ギ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- あぶ.ない あや.うい あや.ぶむ
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 6
- Newspaper frequency
- #606 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 卩 (26, 4 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 厄
- Unicode
- U+5371
Parts that make up 危
How 危 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 危 as a ideographic compound involving 厃, 卩.
Korean example words with 危
- 위충危忠 Korean gloss: 깨끗한 충신
- 위화危禍 Korean gloss: 위험한 재화
- 위경危境 Korean gloss: 위태로운 처지
- 위기危機 Korean gloss: 위험한 고비나 시기
- 위난危難 Korean gloss: 위급하고 곤란한 경우
- 위국危局 Korean gloss: 위태로운 시국이나 판국
- 안위安危 Korean gloss: 편안함과 위태함을 아울러 이르는 말
- 위급하다危急 Korean gloss: 몹시 위태롭고 급하다
- 위구스럽다危懼 Korean gloss: 염려하고 두려워하는 마음이 있다
- 위박하다危迫 Korean gloss: 위험이 눈앞에 닥쳐 매우 절박하다
- 위중하다危重 Korean gloss: 어떤 사태가 매우 위태롭고 중하다
- 위험하다危險 Korean gloss: 해로움이나 손실이 생길 우려가 있다
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 危
- 危機きき crisis; critical situation; emergency
- 危険きけん danger; peril; hazard
- 危ういあやうい dangerous; in danger; facing imminent danger
- 危うくあやうく barely; narrowly; almost
- 危ぶむあやぶむ to fear; to doubt; to have misgivings about
- 危惧きぐ apprehension; misgivings; uneasiness
- 危害きがい injury; harm; danger
- 危篤きとく critical condition; being on the verge of death
- 危ないあぶない dangerous; risky; hazardous
- 危急ききゅう emergency; crisis; imminent danger
- 危なげないあぶなげない safe; certain
- 危なっかしいあぶなっかしい dangerous; critical; grave
Characters sharing the phonetic 厄
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.
Other hanja read “위”
Other hanja with radical 卩
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences