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唯独

wéi dú

HSK 6 2-character word Traditional 唯獨

What 唯独 means

1. only
2. just (i.e. it is only that...)
3. all except
4. unique

The characters in 唯独

• 唯wéionly; alone; -ism (in Chinese, a prefix, often combined with a suffix such as 主义
• 独dúalone; independent; single

Example sentences

• 快乐存在于过去和未来，唯独不存在于现在。
  Kuàilè cúnzài yú guòqù hé wèilái, wéidú bù cúnzài yú xiànzài.
  Pleasure is always in the past or in the future, never in the present.

Sounds the same

Read wéi dú, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 唯读read-only (computing)
• 惟独variant of 唯独