为
as (in the capacity of) / to take sth as / to act as / to serve as / to behave as / to become / to be / to do / by (in the passive voice)
because of / for / to
variant of 為|为[wei2] / as (i.e. in the capacity of) / to take sth as / to act as / to serve as / to behave as / to become / to be / to do
为 character breakdown
"eight" component in Chinese characters / archaic variant of 八[ba1]
Mnemonic symbol: a crocodile with mean eyes. Beelzebub (b) is fighting with eight crocodiles (丷) in front of the ashram (a1).
power / force / strength / ability / strenuously
力
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㇆
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丿
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Mnemonic symbol: a power button.
Li Qingzhao (li) just had a shower in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and wants to use the hair dryer, but there's no plug, just the bare end of the cable! She uses all her power to build an electricity plug, and for the two pins she uses a plough (㇆) and a banana (丿). Finally she hits a big power button (力) to turn the power on.
Li Qingzhao (li) just had a shower in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and wants to use the hair dryer, but there's no plug, just the bare end of the cable! She uses all her power to build an electricity plug, and for the two pins she uses a plough (㇆) and a banana (丿). Finally she hits a big power button (力) to turn the power on.
Characters with 为 as component
false / fake / forged / bogus / (prefix) pseudo- / Taiwan pr. [wei4]
Words with 为
for this reason / with regards to this / in this respect / in order to do this / to this end
to feel embarrassed or awkward / to make things difficult (for someone) / to find things difficult (to do or manage)
attempting nothing and accomplishing nothing (idiom); without any initiative or drive / feckless
to break the law and commit crimes (idiom); malefactor / evildoer / to perpetrate outrages
to act as accomplice to the tiger / to help a villain do evil (idiom)
to serve as the norm / ...shall prevail (as standard for rules, regulations, price etc)
in numerical terms (typically followed by 不少[bu4 shao3] or 不多[bu4 duo1] or a number)
to start on virtue but give up (idiom); to fail to carry things through / lack of sticking power / short attention span
