wéi
surround
Phonosemantic compound. 囗 represents the meaning and 韋 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 圍
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
range | ||
surroundings | ||
to encircle | ||
to surround | ||
to revolve around |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷə[j] | hjw+j | wéi | surround |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 51.2414% of movies
900th most common character in movies
576th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+570D |
Shuowen | “圍，守也。从囗，韋聲。” |
Sources
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