wěi

name of a river in honan

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

water

有 sound component

  Sound component

yǒu

  

have

Evolution

洧 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
洧 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
洧 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
洧 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

wěi

name of a river in honan; name of a river

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ʷrəʔ

hwijX

wěi

name of a river


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

7099th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+6D27

Shuowen

“洧,水。出潁川陽城山,東南入潁。从水,有聲。”


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