危

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 Derived terms 1.2.2 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

Stroke order

[edit] Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): semantic 厃 + semantic 卪

[edit] Han character

危 (radical 26 卩+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 弓一尸山 (NMSU), four-corner 2721₂)

1. dangerous, precarious
2. high
3. a Chinese surname

[edit] Derived terms

• 祪, 跪, 詭, 觤, 桅, 頠, 㩻, 恑, 洈, 姽, 蛫, 垝, 䤥

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 159, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2849
• Dae Jaweon: page 364, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 312, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5371

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

危 (Yale ngai4)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

危 (grade 6 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: き (ki)
• Kun: あぶない (危ない, abunai), あやうい (危うい, ayaui), あやぶむ (危ぶむ, ayabumu)

[edit] Compounds

• 危機 (きき, kiki), “‘crisis’”)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

危
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 위 (revised: wi, McCune-Reischauer: wi)

• Name (hangeul): 위태할 (revised: witaehal, McCune-Reischauer: wit'aehal)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

危 (pinyin wēi (wei1), Wade-Giles wei¹)

[edit] Compounds

• 危機 (weiji)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

危 (nguy, ngoay, ngoe, nguầy, nguỳ)