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韦

soft leather

4 strokes Dict coverage rank #1,864 U+97E6

How 韦 is formed

components: 三 丨

How to remember it

tanned hide · Heisig RSH #1227

— as a component also called: briar patch

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Characters built with 韦 as their sound component

These characters all use 韦 (wéi) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:

CharacterPinyinMeaning
韦 sound component wéi tanned leather; surname
围 wéi to surround, to encircle, to corral
违 wéi to violate, to disobey, to defy; to separate from
伟 wěi great, imposing; extraordinary
苇 wěi reed
纬 wěi warp and woof; lines of latitude
讳 huì taboo; to shun, to conceal, to avoid mentioning
韪 wěi right; proper; perpriety
闱 wéi gate, door; living quarters
玮 wěi a type of red jade; rare, valuable
帏 wéi a curtain that forms a wall
炜 wěi brilliant, glowing, red
祎 yī excellent, rare; beautiful, fine

Words containing 韦

WordPinyinMeaning
比亚韦斯托克 Bǐ yà wéi sī tuō kè Białystok, city in Poland
梅里亚姆·韦伯斯特 Méi lǐ yà mǔ · Wéi bó sī tè Merriam-Webster (dictionary)
布衣韦带 bù yī wéi dài in hemp cloth and with a leather belt; poorly dressed
麦克斯韦 Mài kè sī wéi Maxwell (name); James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Scottish physicist and mathematician, the…
韦斯卡 Wéi sī kǎ Uesca or Huesca, Spain
热尔韦 Rè ěr wéi Gervais (name); Paul Gervais (1816-1879), French geologist
韦应物 Wéi Yìng wù Wei Yingwu (c. 737 – c. 792), Tang dynasty poet
韦格纳 Wéi gé nà Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), German meteorologist and geophysicist, the originator of the t…
韦尔瓦 Wéi ěr wǎ Huelva, Spain
瑞德西韦 ruì dé xī wéi remdesivir (antiviral medication) (loanword)
查韦斯 Chá wéi sī Chavez, Spanish name
塞韦里诺 Sài wéi lǐ nuò (name) Severino
津巴布韦 Jīn bā bù wéi Zimbabwe
韦编三绝 wéi biān sān jué lit. the leather binding (of the bamboo scroll) has broken three times; fig. to study dili…
梅德韦杰夫 Méi dé wéi jié fū Medvedyev (name); Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (1965-), Russian lawyer and politician, pre…
韦氏拼法 Wéi shì pīn fǎ Wade-Giles system (romanization of Chinese)
韦利 Wéi lì Waley or Whaley (name); Arthur Waley (1889-1966), pioneer British sinologist
韦尔弗雷兹 Wéi ěr fú léi zī (George) Wehrfritz (Beijing bureau chief of Newsweek)
韦德 Wéi dé Wade (name); Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-1895), sinologist 威妥瑪|威妥玛[Wei1 Tuo3 ma3]
奥司他韦 ào sī tā wéi (loanword) oseltamivir