HSK 5 · Verbs

威胁 wēixié “to threaten” in Chinese

Traditional 威脅

What 威胁 means

  1. to threaten
  2. to menace

How to say 威胁

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale威wēi1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale胁xié2nd tone, rising

威胁 in a sentence

  1. 你这是在威胁我吗？

    Nǐ zhè shì zài wēixié wǒ ma?

    Are you threatening me?

    Sentence #10560002 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 空气污染将会威胁我们的生存。

    Kōngqì wūrǎn jiāng huì wēixié wǒmen de shēngcún.

    Air pollution will threaten our survival.

    Sentence #604468 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我觉得我的名誉受到了威胁。

    Wǒ juéde wǒ de míngyù shòudào le wēixié.

    I felt that my reputation was under threat.

    Sentence #884181 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 威胁 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 威 (wēi) with each of its parts in a different colour
威wēipower
  • 戌part of the character
  • 女woman · nǚ
The character 胁 (xié) with each of its parts in a different colour
胁xiéflank
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròu
  • 办to set up · bàn

How to write 威胁

威 9 strokes · 胁 8 strokes

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

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

Words related to 威胁

Words with 威

威风wēifēng · impressive权威quánwēi · authority示威shìwēi · to hold a demonstration威力wēilì · power威望wēiwàng · prestige威信wēixìn · prestige

More words: Common Verbs

退tuì · to move back退步tuìbù · to regress往返wǎngfǎn · to go back and forth危害wēihài · to harm围绕wéirào · to revolve around维修wéixiū · to repair闻wén · to smell握手wòshǒu · to shake hands

FAQs

威胁 (wēixié) means “to threaten” or “to menace”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it wēixié: wēi with a 1st tone, then xié 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, 威胁 is written 威脅. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type weixie with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 威胁 from the suggestions. Typing weixie into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
威胁 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.