wéi
tanned leather
Simplified form of 韋. Pictograph of feet walking around city walls. The character is based on the original meaning "to surround". The "leather" meaning is a phonetic loan.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 韦
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
surname Wei | ||
Wade (name) | ||
Webb, Webber or Weber (name) | ||
Chavez, Spanish name | ||
Zimbabwe |
Component uses
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.476