IDENTITY
危wēidanger; dangerous
HSK 4Top 500
CORE MEANING
danger; dangerous
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.dangerHSK4
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 卩seal radical (jié)
- strokes
- 6
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿸厃㔾
- person on a cliff
- the crouching body
USAGE
Common words
危险wēixiǎndangerous
危机wēijīcrisis
Graded examples
别做危险的事。Bié zuò wēixiǎn de shì.HSK4
Don’t do dangerous things.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 脆
LEARNING
Memory aid
A person (厃) on the cliff edge — danger.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #500
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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