Chinese Character Wiki

闈

wéi

gate

Components
門 meaning component

門  Meaning component

mén

  

door

gate

韋 sound component

韋  Sound component

wéi

  

(surround a city), tanned leather

Evolution

闈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
闈 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
闈 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

闱 (闈) 

wéi

gate, door; living quarters; door to women's room; gate to palace

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4575th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

闱

Unicode

U+95C8

Shuowen

“闈，宮中之門也。从門，韋聲。”


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