Chinese Character Wiki

隈

wēi

cove

Components
阝 meaning component

阝  Meaning component

fù

  

hill, place

place

畏 sound component

畏  Sound component

wèi

  

fear

Evolution

隈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
隈 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

隈  

wēi

cove, bay, inlet; bay; cove

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ʔ]ˤuj

'woj

wēi

bend, nook (n.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6472nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+9688

Shuowen

“隈，水曲隩也。从，畏聲。”


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