(wéi) - only, alone (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
wéiTraditional: 唯
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Translation
only, alone (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound: the mouth radical 口 relates to an exclamation or response, while 隹 (zhuī, short-tailed bird) supplies the sound; it came to mean only or solely.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 口 (mouth radical) + 隹 (zhuī, phonetic)
Stroke order
唯
Examples
。
He is my only friend.
。
This is the only way.
。
She is my only child.
。
Only through effort can one succeed.
唯 (wéi) means only and is bound, surfacing chiefly in 唯一 (wéiyī), meaning sole or unique.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 唯.
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