wěi

brilliant red

Evolution

煒 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

() 

wěi

brilliant red; glowing; bright; brilliant

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ʷə[j]ʔ

hjw+jX

wěi

bright


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4864th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+7152

Shuowen

“煒,盛赤也。从火,韋聲。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License