wěi, wēi
bent, winding
Depicts grain (禾) in a bent shape (𠃊).
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 委
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
judging panel | ||
committee | ||
to entrust | ||
to entrust | ||
(law) client |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*q(r)oj | 'jwe | wēi | 委蛇 compliant, complaisant |
*q(r)ojʔ | 'jweX | wěi | entrust to |
*q(r)ojʔ | 'jweX | wěi | collect; store |
*q(r)orʔ | 'jweX | wěi | bend; hang down |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 22.7455% of movies
970th most common character in movies
457th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+59D4 |
Shuowen | “委,委隨也。从女,从禾。” |
Sources
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