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唯一

wéi yī 2–1

only; sole

HSK level
HSK 5
HSK 2.0 level 5 · HSK 3.0 level 5
Characters
2
唯 · 一
Syllables
2
wéi yī
Frequency
Very common
corpus count 426

Part of speech: b,d

Character by character

  • 唯wéi11 strokesHSK 5only; yes
  • 一yī1 strokesHSK 1one; a, an; alone

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 那是唯一的出路。

    Nà shi wéi yī de chū lù

    It was the only way to go.

  • 这是我唯一关心的。

    Zhè shì wǒ wéi yī guān xīn de

    That's my sole concern.

  • 人是唯一会说话的动物。

    Rén shì wéi yī huì shuō huà de dòng wù

    Man is the only animal that can speak.

  • 这是我唯一能想到的事了。

    Zhè shì wǒ wéi yī néng xiǎng dào de shì le

    It's the only thing I can think of.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 唯一. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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