wéi

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  • 1

    v.fmldo; act

    • jìn lì ér wéi

      尽力

      make the best of

    • dà yǒu kě wéi

      have a brilliant future

    • shì zài rén wéi

      Human effort is the decisive factor.

  • 2

    v.fmlbecome; turn

    • fǎn bài wéi shèng

      win instead of lose

    • wǒ men yào huà bēi shāng wéi lì liàng

      我们悲伤力量

      We need to turn sadness into strength.

    • huà xiǎn wéi yí

      head off a danger

  • 3

    v.fmlact as; serve as; play the part of

    • yǐ cǐ wéi píng

      This will serve as proof.

    • tā bèi xuǎn wéi chǎng zhǎng

      厂长

      He was elected as the factory director.

    • zhè ge yǒu xiào qī yǐ yī yuè wéi xiàn

      这个有效期

      It's effective within the limit of one month.

  • 4

    v.do; act

  • 5

    v.fmlact as; serve as

  • 6

    v.fmlbecome; turn into

  • 7

    v.fmlbe; mean

    synonym
  • 8

    v.fmlbe; mean

    • shì yòng qī wéi sān gè yuè

      试用期

      The probation lasts three months.

  • 9

    prep.(used to express the passive form of a verb)

    synonym
  • 10

    prep.used with 所 in a passive sentence

    • wéi hào qí xīn suǒ qū shǐ

      好奇心驱使

      be prompted by curiosity

  • 11

    auxiliary wordfml(used to indicate a rhetorical question)

  • 12

    v.(used after a single-character adjective to form an adverb)

  • 13

    v.(used after a single-character adverb for emphasis)

Word usage

  • Note
    When pronounced as "wéi", "为" is a verb, or a preposition to introduce the agent of an action (equivalent to "被"), such as "为首" "为事实所证明"; when pronounced as "wèi", except as the classical Chinese meaning "help" , under others circumustances it is used as prepositions, such as "为人民服务" .