Chinese Character Wiki

衞

wèi

guard

Evolution

衞 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
衞 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
衞 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

衞  

wèi

guard, protect, defend; variant of 衛|卫[wèi]; to guard; to defend

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+885E

Shuowen

“衞，宿衞也。从韋、帀，从行。行，列衞也。”


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