wēi
power
Depicts a weapon (戌) used to force a woman (女) into submission.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ʔuj | 'jw+j | wēi | awe-inspiring |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 53.7882% of movies
596th most common character in movies
622nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+5A01 |
Shuowen | “威,姑也。从女,从戌。《漢律》曰:‘婦告威姑。’” |
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