危

危 U+5371, 危
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5371
← 印
[U+5370] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 卲 →
[U+5372]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

Derived characters

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 危

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 危
Shang Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (危) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鮠 *ŋuːl
峞 *ŋuːl, *ŋuːlʔ
頠 *ŋuːlʔ, *ŋrolʔ
詭 *krolʔ
垝 *krolʔ, *krols
陒 *krolʔ
觤 *krolʔ
恑 *krolʔ
蛫 *krolʔ
祪 *krolʔ
洈 *krolʔ, *ŋrol
姽 *krolʔ, *ŋrolʔ
桅 *krolʔ
佹 *krolʔ
跪 *kʰrolʔ, *ɡrolʔ
危 *ŋrol
峗 *ŋrol
硊 *ŋrolʔ
卼 *kʰruls

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : semantic 厃 + semantic 卪.

Pronunciation 1

Note:
  • gûi - literary;
  • hûi - vernacular;
  • ûi/lûi - colloquial.
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 危
Mandarin Beijing /uei⁵⁵/
Harbin /uei²¹³/
Tianjin /vei²¹/
Jinan /vei⁵⁵/
Qingdao /ve⁴²/
Zhengzhou /uei⁵³/
Xi'an /uei²¹/
Xining /uɨ²⁴/
Yinchuan /vei⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /vei³¹/
Ürümqi /vei⁵¹/
Wuhan /uei²¹³/
Chengdu /uei³¹/
Guiyang /uei²¹/
Kunming /uei³¹/
Nanjing /uəi²⁴/
Hefei /ue⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /vei¹¹/
Pingyao /uei¹³/
Hohhot /vei³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɦue²³/
Suzhou /ɦue̞¹³/
Hangzhou /ɦui²¹³/
Wenzhou /ȵy³¹/
Hui Shexian /ue⁴⁴/
Tunxi /ue⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /uei¹³/
Xiangtan /uəi¹²/
Gan Nanchang /ui⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /ŋui¹¹/
Taoyuan /vui¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /ŋɐi²¹/
Nanning /ŋɐi²¹/
Hong Kong /ŋɐi²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /gui³⁵/
/hui³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /ŋuoi⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ŋy³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ŋũi⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ŋui³¹/
Rime
Character 危
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 支 (14)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 魚爲切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋˠiuᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋʷᵚiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋiuɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋjwiə̆/
Li
Rong		 /ŋjue/
Wang
Li		 /ŋǐwe/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋwie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 wéi
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 危
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 wēi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ngjwe ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ŋ](r)[o]j/
English in danger

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 危
Reading # 1/1
No. 12781
Phonetic
component		 危
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 危
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋrol/

Definitions

危

  1. dangerous
  2. precarious; high
  3. roof
  4. (～宿) (astronomy) the Roof, a Chinese constellation near Aquarius and Pegasus
  5. A surname​.

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 危 – see 懸 (“(Teochew) high; tall”).
(This character, 危, is a variant form of 懸.)

Japanese

Kanji

危

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. danger

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

危 • (wi)

  • Eumhun:
    • Sound (hangeul): 위 (revised: wi, McCune–Reischauer: wi)
    • Name (hangeul): 위태할 (revised: witaehal, McCune–Reischauer: wit'aehal)
  1. dangerous, precarious
  2. high

Vietnamese

Han character

危 (nguy, ngoay, ngoe, nguầy, nguỳ)

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