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威胁

wēi xié 1–2

to threaten; to menace

HSK level
HSK 6
HSK 2.0 level 5 · HSK 3.0 level 6
Characters
2
威 · 胁
Syllables
2
wēi xié
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,564

Part of speech: v,vn

Character by character

  • 威wēi9 strokesHSK 5pomp, power; powerful; dominate
  • 胁xié8 strokesHSK 5 traditional 脅ribs, armpits; flank; threaten

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 他威胁要公开。

    Tā wēi xié yào gōng kāi

    He threatened to make it public.

  • 你那时被人威胁了。

    Nǐ nà shí bèi rén wēi xié le

    You were being threatened.

  • 他的生命受到了威胁。

    Tā de shēng mìng shòu dào le wēi xié

    His life is in danger.

  • 我一点也不怕他威胁。

    Wǒ yī diǎn yě bù pà tā wēi xié

    I am not in the least afraid of his threats.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 威胁. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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