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wǎi

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wǎi Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
wǎi | wai3
English translation
high, lofty, precipitous; to sprain

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About wǎi

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Number of strokes

12

Traditional form

wǎi

Contains the radical

Shān

Part of speech

Verb / 动词 dòng cí Dòngcí

Learning hint

mountain

Etymology of wǎi

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

山威

Semantic compound

Shān

Phonetic compound

wēi

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. Shān represents the meaning and wēi represents the sound.

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Words with wǎi

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
wǎi bend (in a river, road etc) (used in place names) wǎi
海参崴 Hǎi shēn wǎi Vladivostok海參崴

wǎi Decomposition & Compounds

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