Results, 危うい
- 危うい☆【あやうい】 Inflection
adjective:
- dangerous; risky; hazardous; perilous; precarious
- in danger; in jeopardy; critical; grave; at risk
- uncertain; unreliable; insecure; unsteady; doubtful
- close (i.e. a close call); narrow
危ういところで少女は湖でおぼれそうになった。 It was a close call when the little girl almost drowned in the lake.
彼は今入院中で、生きられるかどうかは危うい状態だ。 He is now in the hospital and his life is in the balance.
JLPTN2
Kanji definition:
- 危
- 常用６年JLPTN3
キ・あぶない・あやうい・あやぶむ
dangerous; fear; uneasy
- Strokes:
- 6
- Radical:
- 卩㔾 seal
- SKIP:
- 2-2-4
- UTF:
- 5371
- JIS208:
- 20-77
- Hangul:
- 위 [wi]
- Pinyin:
- wēi / wéi
- Example words:
- 危機【きき】
- crisis; critical situation; emergency; pinch
- 危険【きけん】
- danger; peril; hazard; / risk
- 危うい【あやうい】
- dangerous; risky; hazardous; perilous; precarious; / in danger; in jeopardy; critical; grave; at risk; / uncertain; unreliable; insecure; unsteady; doubtful; / close (i.e. a close call); narrow
- 危うく【あやうく】
- barely; narrowly; / almost; nearly
- 危ない【あぶない】
- dangerous; risky; hazardous; perilous; precarious; / in danger; in jeopardy; critical; grave; at risk; / uncertain; unreliable; insecure; unsteady; doubtful; / close (i.e. a close call); narrow
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