HSK 5 · Verbs

危害 wēihài “to harm” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 危害 means

  1. to harm
  2. to endanger
  3. to jeopardise
  4. harmful effect
  5. damage

How to say 危害

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale危wēi1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale害hài4th tone, falling

危害 in a sentence

  1. 有些药品会对身体产生危害。

    Yǒuxiē yàopǐn huì duì shēntǐ chǎnshēng wēihài.

    Some medicines can be harmful to the body.

    Sentence #1551887 from Tatoeba

How 危害 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 危 (wēi) with each of its parts in a different colour
危wēidanger
  • 厃to look upward
  • 㔾seal · jié
The character 害 (hài) with each of its parts in a different colour
害hàito do harm to
  • 宀roof · mián
  • 丰abundant · fēng
  • 口mouth · kǒu

How to write 危害

危 6 strokes · 害 10 strokes

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

Words related to 危害

Words with 危

危险wēixiǎn · danger危机wēijī · crisis

Words with 害

害怕hàipà · afraid of厉害lìhai · impressive害羞hàixiū · shy伤害shānghài · to hurt灾害zāihài · calamity利害lìhai · terrible迫害pòhài · to persecute陷害xiànhài · to frame

More words: Common Verbs

推广tuīguǎng · to promote退tuì · to move back退步tuìbù · to regress往返wǎngfǎn · to go back and forth威胁wēixié · to threaten围绕wéirào · to revolve around维修wéixiū · to repair闻wén · to smell

FAQs

危害 (wēihài) means “to harm” or “to endanger”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it wēihài: wēi with a 1st tone, then hài with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 危害 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type weihai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 危害 from the suggestions. Typing weihai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
危害 is an HSK 5 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.