HSK 6 · Function Words

唯独 wéidú “only” in Chinese

Traditional 唯獨

What 唯独 means

  1. only
  2. alone
  3. just (i.e. it is only that…)
  4. all except
  5. unique

How to say 唯独

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale唯wéi2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale独dú2nd tone, rising

唯独 in a sentence

  1. 快乐存在于过去和未来，唯独不存在于现在。

    Kuàilè cúnzài yú guòqù hé wèilái, wéidú bù cúnzài yú xiànzài.

    Happiness exists in the past and the future, but never in the present.

    Sentence #1409353 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 唯独 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 唯 (wéi) with each of its parts in a different colour
唯wéionly
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 隹short-tailed bird · zhuī
The character 独 (dú) with each of its parts in a different colour
独dúalone
  • 犭dog form of 犬 · quǎnMeaning part
  • 虫insect · chóngSound part

犭 hints at the meaning (dog); 虫 (chóng) hints at the sound. Compare it with dú.

How to write 唯独

唯 11 strokes · 独 9 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

唯独 (wéidú) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 唯独 (wéidú). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 唯独

Words with 唯

唯一wéiyī · only

Words with 独

独立dúlì · independent独特dútè · unique单独dāndú · alone孤独gūdú · lonely独裁dúcái · dictatorship得天独厚détiāndúhòu · richly endowed by nature

More words: Function Words & Grammar

特意tèyì · specially统统tǒngtǒng · all哇wa · particle (form of 啊 after -u or -ao)万分wànfēn · extremely未免wèimiǎn · rather务必wùbì · must无非wúfēi · nothing but要命yàomìng · terribly

FAQs

唯独 (wéidú) means “only” or “alone”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it wéidú: wéi with a 2nd tone, then dú with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 唯独 is written 唯獨. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type weidu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 唯独 from the suggestions. Typing weidu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
唯独 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.