为, wéi
Meaning: to be, to act as, to become
HSK 4 word
Example
大家选他为班长。
Dàjiā xuǎn tā wéi bānzhǎng.
Everyone chose him as class monitor.
Also written 为: wèi, “for, because of” (HSK 3); wéi, “by (in formal passive sentences)” (HSK 5).
More HSK 4 words
- 有效yǒuxiàoto be effective, to be valid
- 起到qǐdàoto play (a role), to have (an effect)
- 叫作jiàozuòto be called, to be known as
- 分为fēnwéito divide into
- 者zhěperson who does something, -er
- 性xìngsuffix for a quality, -ness, -ity
- 感gǎnsense of, feeling (as a suffix)
- 无法wúfǎunable to, cannot
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