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唯

HSK 7–9#1073 by frequencyradical 口

wéi["d"]

only; alone; -ism (in Chinese, a prefix, often combined with a suffix such as 主义 or 论, e.g. 唯理论, rationalism)

wěi

yes

Examples

我是唯一的幸存者。

I'm the only one who survived.

汤姆不是唯一没说话的。

Tom wasn't the only one who didn't say anything.

Part of the HSK 7–9 word list.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.