wěi

comply

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
女 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

woman

尾 sound component

  Sound component

wěi

  

tail

Evolution

娓 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
娓 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

wěi

comply; complying, agreeable; active; comply with

Most common words with 娓
Freq.
Word
Meaning

active

娓娓动听

to speak in a pleasant and captivating manner (idiom)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3999th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+5A13

Shuowen

“娓,順也。从女,尾聲。讀若媚。”


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