Risk in Chinese
risk · HSK 5
风险
- 风 wind
- 险 danger
Counted with 个: 一个风险
投资总是有风险的。 Investing always carries risk.
Other ways to say risk
More words with 风 or 险
How do you say risk in Chinese?
Risk in Chinese is 风险 (fēng xiǎn). You can also say 险 (xiǎn), 危险 (wēi xiǎn), 冒 (mào).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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