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慰

wèi

HSK 5 Character

What 慰 means

1. to comfort
2. to console
3. to reassure

Example sentences

• 谁来安慰我？
  Shéi lái ānwèi wǒ?
  Who will console me?
• 谁去安慰她？
  Who will console her?
• 我可以安慰她。
  Wǒ kěyǐ ānwèi tā.
  I can comfort her.
• 我在安慰玛丽。
  I am consoling Mary.
• 她试着安慰他。
  She tried to console him.
• 她试图安慰他。
  She tried to console him.

Words starting with 慰

• 慰问wèi wènto express sympathy, greetings, consolation etc
• 慰藉wèi jièto console; to comfort
• 慰劳wèi láoto show appreciation (by kind words, small gifts etc); to comfort
• 慰问金wèi wèn jīncondolence payment; compensation given in cases of bereavement, serious injury or hardship
• 慰安妇wèi ān fùcomfort woman (woman or girl forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military 1937-1945)…
• 慰唁wèi yànto console

Words containing 慰

• 安慰ān wèito comfort; to console
• 欣慰xīn wèito be gratified
• 抚慰fǔ wèito console; to comfort; to soothe
• 自慰zì wèito console oneself; to masturbate; onanism
• 宽慰kuān wèito console; to soothe; relieved
• 劝慰quàn wèito console
• 告慰gào wèito comfort; to console
• 快慰kuài wèito feel pleased
• 神慰shén wèispiritual consolation
• 健慰器jiàn wèi qìsex toy
• 安慰剂ān wèi jìplacebo
• 安慰奖ān wèi jiǎngconsolation prize
• 反安慰剂fǎn ān wèi jìnocebo
• 聊以自慰liáo yǐ zì wèito find some consolation (idiom); to find relief in
• 自我安慰zì wǒ ān wèito comfort oneself; to console oneself; to reassure oneself
• 抚慰金fǔ wèi jīnpension or lump-sum payment for the injured or for the family of the deceased
• 吊慰diào wèito offer condolences; to console the bereaved

Characters that look like 慰

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 额éforehead; horizontal tablet or inscribed board; specified number or amount
• 熬áoto cook on a slow fire; to extract by heating; to decoct; to endure
• 骸háibones of the body
• 憋biēto choke; to stifle; to restrain
• 憩qìto rest
• 粼línclear (as of water)

Sounds the same

Read wèi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 位position; location; place
• 喂hey; to feed (an animal, baby, invalid etc)
• 未not yet; did not; have not
• 卫to guard; to protect; to defend
• 味taste; smell; (fig.) (noun suffix) feel
• 谓to speak; to say; to name
• 胃stomach
• 畏to fear
• 魏tower over a palace gateway (old)
• 蔚Artemisia japonica; luxuriant; resplendent
• 尉military officer
• 渭the Wei River in Shaanxi through the Guanzhong Plain 关中平原