扶危

Chinese

		to support with hand; to help someone up; to help	danger; to endanger
simp. and trad. (扶危)		扶	危

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fúwēi, fúwéi

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ ㄨㄟ, ㄈㄨˊ ㄨㄟˊ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fúwēi
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ ㄨㄟ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fúwei
  - Wade–Giles: fu²-wei¹
  - Yale: fú-wēi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwuuei
  - Palladius: фувэй (fuvɛj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵ weɪ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan; dated variant in Mainland)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fúwéi
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ ㄨㄟˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fúwéi
  - Wade–Giles: fu²-wei²
  - Yale: fú-wéi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwuwei
  - Palladius: фувэй (fuvɛj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵ weɪ̯³⁵/

Verb

扶危

(literary) to aid someone in crisis
- 末年益甚，無復知所負荷、有扶危持顛之心。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
  末年益甚，无复知所负荷、有扶危持颠之心。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]
  From: c. late 9^th century, Du Guangting,《虯髯客傳》, translated as The Man with the Curly Beard by Yang Xianyi & Gladys Yang
  Mònián yì shèn, wú fù zhī suǒ fùhè, yǒu fúwēi chídiān zhī xīn. [Pinyin]
  He became worse, too, in his old age when, forgetting his duty to his sovereign, he made no attempt to save the realm from utter ruin.

Derived terms

救困扶危 (jiù kùn fúwēi)

Noun

扶危

(～卦) A combination 二上四中 in the Lingqijing.