| wèi | to fear |
| 畏 | to fear |
| 畏光 | photophobia; phengophobia; otophobia; photodysphoria; intolerance of light |
| 畏友 | esteemed friend |
| 畏尸病 | [Medicine] necrophobia |
| 畏忌 | fear; scuple |
| 畏怯 | cowardly; timid; shrink |
| 畏惧 | to fear to dread foreboding |
| 畏明 | [Medicine] photophobia |
| 畏畏缩缩 | cowering cringing |
| 畏缩 | to cower to flinch to quail |
| 畏缩不前 | to shrink back in fear (idiom); too cowardly to advance |
| 畏罪 | to dread punishment afraid of being arrested for a crime |
| 畏罪潜逃 | to flee to escape punishment; to abscond to avoid punishement |
| 畏罪自杀 | to commit suicide to escape punishment |
| 畏葸 | timid; afraid |
| 畏葸不前 | afraid to advance; hesitate to press forward; recoil in fear |
| 畏途 | dangerous road; a perilous undertaking |
| 畏避 | avoid; recoil from; flinch from |
| 畏难 | be afraid of difficulty |
| 畏食 | [Medicine] sitophobia |