wěi
great
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 韋 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 25.0040% of movies
1266th most common character in movies
1107th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5049 |
Shuowen | “偉，奇也。从人，韋聲。” |
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