倭 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

wō

dwarf

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 委 represents the sound.

Components

亻 Meaning component

rén

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

委 Sound component

wěi, wēi

bent, winding

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

wō

dwarf; dwarfish, short; Japanese (derog.) (old)

Most common words with 倭

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	倭	dwarf
	倭寇	Japanese pirates (in 16th and 17th century)
	倭人	dwarf
	倭瓜	(dialect) pumpkin

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3390th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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