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危机

wēi jī

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 危機

危机 (wēi jī) means "crisis". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 危机 means

1. crisis

The characters in 危机

• 危wēidanger; to endanger; Taiwan pr. wéi
• 机jī(bound form) machine; mechanism; (bound form) aircraft; (bound form) an opportunity

Example sentences

• 牠们正面临绝种的危机。
  tāmen zhèng miànlín juézhǒng de wēijī.
  They are in danger of extinction.
• 它们正面临绝种的危机。
  They are in danger of extinction.
• 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.
• 阿尔及利亚正处于经济危机中。
  ā'ěrjílìyà zhèng chǔyú jīngjì wēijī zhōng.
  Algeria is in the midst of an economic crisis.
• 阿尔及利亚正处于政治危机中。
  Algeria is in the midst of a political crisis.
• 我们当前的危机绝非单纯的经济危机。
  Our current crisis is no mere economic crisis.

Words starting with 危机

• 危机感wēi jī gǎnsense of crisis; acute awareness of looming danger or instability…
• 危机四伏wēi jī sì fúdanger lurks on every side (idiom)

Words containing 危机

• 经济危机jīng jì wēi jīeconomic crisis
• 信用危机xìn yòng wēi jīcredit crisis
• 能源危机néng yuán wēi jīenergy crisis
• 金融危机jīn róng wēi jīfinancial crisis
• 货币危机huò bì wēi jīmonetary crisis
• 信贷危机xìn dài wēi jīcredit crisis
• 次贷危机cì dài wēi jīsubprime mortgage crisis; abbr. for 次级房屋信贷危机
• 次级房屋信贷危机cì jí fáng wū xìn dài wēi jīsubprime mortgage crisis

Sounds the same

Read wēi jī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 微机micro (computer)

Where 危机 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · wéi–wěi (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read wēi jī correctly.
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