萎 (wěi)
to wither; to droop
How 萎 is written
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 艹 — grass
- Traditional
- 萎
- Simplified
- 萎 (unchanged)
Components
- 艹 grass
- 禾 grain
- 女 woman
萎 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- wēi
- spiritless; withered
- wěi
- wither
Common words using 萎
- 枯萎 kūwěi
- to wilt; to wither; wilted
- 萎縮 wěisuō
- to wither; to dry up (of a plant); to atrophy (of muscle, social custom etc)
- 萎靡 wěimǐ
- dispirited; depressed
- 萎靡不振 wěimǐbùzhèn
- dispirited and listless (idiom); downcast
- 陽萎 yángwěi
- impotence; also written 陽痿|阳痿[yang2 wei3]
萎 in a sentence
因為沒有水，花都枯萎了。
Yīnwèi méiyǒu shuǐ, huā dōu kūwěi le.
“Because there was no water, the flowers withered.”
How common is 萎?
萎 is the 2,751st most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 98.9% of all running text.
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