wēi

to stew

Components
火 meaning component

  Meaning component

huǒ

  

fire

fire

畏 sound component

  Sound component

wèi

  

fear

Evolution

煨 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
煨 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

wēi

to stew, simmer; to simmer; to roast in ashes

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4855th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+7168

Shuowen

“煨,盆中火。从火,畏聲。”


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