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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.

巧妇难为无米之炊qiǎo fù nán wéi wú mǐ zhī chuī

The cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice (idiom) / You won't get anywhere without equipment.

广为guǎng wéi

widely

引以为傲yǐn yǐ wéi ào

to be intensely proud of sth (idiom)

引以为憾yǐn yǐ wéi hàn

to consider sth regrettable (idiom)

引以为戒yǐn yǐ wéi jiè

to take sth as a warning (idiom) / to draw a lesson from a case where things turned out badly

引以为鉴yǐn yǐ wéi jiàn

to take a lesson from (an adverse experience)

强迫性性行为qiǎng pò xìng xìng xíng wéi

sexual obsession

恣意妄为zì yì wàng wéi

to behave unscrupulously

慈悲为本cí bēi wéi běn

mercy as the guiding principle (idiom) / the Buddhist teaching that nothing is valid except compassion

成则为王,败则为寇chéng zé wéi wáng , bài zé wéi kòu

lit. called a king if successful, called a bandit if defeated (idiom) / fig. losers are always in the wrong

成者为王,败者为寇chéng zhě wéi wáng , bài zhě wéi kòu

see 成則為王,敗則為寇|成则为王,败则为寇[chéng zé wéi wáng , bài zé wéi kòu]

户限为穿hù xiàn wéi chuān

to have an endless stream of visitors (idiom)

所为suǒ wéi

what one does / doings

扭亏为盈niǔ kuī wéi yíng

(idiom) to get into the black / to become profitable

拜人为师bài rén wéi shī

to acknowledge as one's teacher

指腹为婚zhǐ fù wéi hūn

to propose the future marriage of two unborn babies on condition that one turns out to be a boy, and the other, a girl (idiom)

指鹿为马zhǐ lù wéi mǎ

making a deer out to be a horse (idiom) / deliberate misrepresentation

舍己为人shě jǐ wèi rén

to abandon self for others (idiom, from Analects) / to sacrifice one's own interest for other people / altruism

舍己为公shě jǐ wèi gōng

to give up one's private interests for the public good (idiom) / to behave altruistically / selfless and public spirited

敢作敢为gǎn zuò gǎn wéi

(idiom) to stop at nothing / to dare to do anything

敢为gǎn wéi

to dare to do

敢为人先gǎn wéi rén xiān

to dare to be first / to pioneer (idiom)

曾经沧海难为水,除却巫山不是云céng jīng cāng hǎi nán wéi shuǐ , chú què Wū Shān bù shì yún

there are no rivers to one who has crossed the ocean, and no clouds to one who has passed Mount Wu (idiom) / one who has seen the world doesn't stop at small things

有仇不报非君子,有冤不伸枉为人yǒu chóu bù bào fēi jūn zǐ , yǒu yuān bù shēn wǎng wéi rén

one who doesn't avenge an injustice is not a gentleman, one who doesn't redress a wrong is not a man (idiom)

有为yǒu wéi

promising / to show promise

有为有守yǒu wéi yǒu shǒu

able to act while maintaining one's integrity (idiom) / also written 有守有為|有守有为[yǒu shǒu yǒu wéi]

朋比为奸péng bǐ wéi jiān

to conspire / to gang up

歃血为盟shà xuè wéi méng

to smear the lips with blood when taking an oath (idiom) / to swear a sacred oath

步步为营bù bù wéi yíng

to advance gradually and entrench oneself at every step / to consolidate at every step

比为bǐ wéi

to liken to / to compare to

民以食为天mín yǐ shí wéi tiān

Food is the God of the people. (idiom) / People view food as the primary need. / Food first, ethical niceties second

海盗行为hǎi dào xíng wéi

piracy

无以为报wú yǐ wéi bào

unable to return the favor

无以为生wú yǐ wéi shēng

no way to get by

无所不为wú suǒ bù wéi

not stopping at anything / all manner of evil

无为wú wéi

the Daoist doctrine of inaction / let things take their own course / laissez-faire

物以稀为贵wù yǐ xī wéi guì

the rarer sth is, the greater its value (idiom)

特为tè wèi

for a specific purpose / specially

犯罪行为fàn zuì xíng wéi

criminal activity

犹未为晚yóu wèi wéi wǎn

it is not too late (idiom)

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