Chinese Character Wiki

違

wéi

disobey

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 韋 represents the sound.

Components
辶 meaning component

辶  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

韋 sound component

韋  Sound component

wéi

  

(surround a city), tanned leather

Evolution

違 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
違 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
違 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

违 (違) 

wéi

disobey, violate, defy; be apart from; to disobey; to violate; to separate; to go against

Most common words with 違
Freq.
Word
Meaning

违法

illegal

违反

to violate (a law)

违规

irregular

违背

to go against

违

to disobey

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ʷə[j]

hjw+j

wéi

go against


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 24.0750% of movies

1408th most common character in movies

1184th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

违

Unicode

U+9055

Shuowen

“違，離也。从辵，韋聲。”


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