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危险 (wēi xiǎn): meaning and stroke order

危险 (wēi xiǎn) means danger, dangerous.

危险

Simplified
危险
Traditional
危險
Pinyin
wēi xiǎn

Stroke order of 危险

危

  • Wēi surname Wei
  • wēi danger; to endanger
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

险

  • xiǎn danger; dangerous
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 險

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 危险

  1. wēi xiǎn Traditional 危險
    • danger
    • dangerous

Radicals of the characters

危
Radical 卩 (Kangxi radical 26) · 6 strokes · built from 厃 and 㔾
险
Radical 阜 (Kangxi radical 170) · 9 strokes · 阝 on the left, 佥 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

危险 in our stories

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  • 可是船运公司却在报纸上宣布：当晚风浪很大，石青山不顾危险，坚持出海，船沉完全是他的责任。

    kěshì chuányùn gōngsī què zài bàozhǐ shàng xuānbù dàngwǎn fēnglàng hěn dà Shí Qīngshān búgù wēixiǎn jiānchí chūhǎi chuán chén wánquán shì tā de zérèn

    But the shipping company announced in the papers that the sea had been very rough that night, that Shi Qingshan had insisted on sailing regardless of the danger, and that the sinking was entirely his fault.

    From the story The storm that never was HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 危险

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).