wěi
name of a river in honan
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
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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