HSK 6 · Ideas

危机 wēijī “crisis” in Chinese

Traditional 危機

What 危机 means

  1. crisis

How to say 危机

  • 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 first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale机jī1st tone, high and level

危机 in a sentence

  1. 他的公司没有从危机中幸存。

    Tā de gōngsī méiyǒu cóng wēijī zhōng xìngcún.

    His company didn’t survive the crisis.

    Sentence #5496290 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 这部有关环境危机的纪录片真是令人大开眼界。

    Zhè bù yǒuguān huánjìng wēijī de jìlùpiàn zhēn shì lìngrén dàkāiyǎnjiè.

    That documentary about the environmental crisis was a real eye-opener.

    Sentence #780388 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 我们当前的危机绝非单纯的经济危机。

    Wǒmen dāngqián de wēijī juéfēi dānchún de jīngjì wēijī.

    Our current crisis is by no means a purely economic one.

    Sentence #13863120 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 危机 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 机 (jī) with each of its parts in a different colour
机jīmachine; mechanism
  • 木tree · mù
  • 几table · jī

Memory aidA small table 几 made of wood 木: a machine. 几 (jī) also gives the sound.

How to write 危机

危 6 strokes · 机 6 strokes

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

Words related to 危机

Words with 危

危险wēixiǎn · danger危害wēihài · to harm

Words with 机

飞机fēijī · aeroplane机场jīchǎng · airport手机shǒujī · mobile phone机票jīpiào · air ticket司机sījī · driver机会jīhuì · opportunity相机xiàngjī · camera耳机ěrjī · headphones关机guānjī · to turn off (a device)开机kāijī · to switch on (a device)

More words: Ideas & Concepts

推论tuīlùn · inference途径tújìng · way突破tūpò · to break through外界wàijiè · the outside world威力wēilì · power威望wēiwàng · prestige威信wēixìn · prestige相差xiāngchà · to differ

FAQs

危机 (wēijī) means “crisis”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it wēijī: wēi with a 1st tone, then jī with a 1st 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, 危机 is written 危機. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type weiji with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 危机 from the suggestions. Typing weiji into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
危机 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.