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尉

wèi

Character

What 尉 means

1. military officer

Other readings

尉 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• yùused in {尉迟|Yù chí}; used in {尉犁|Yù lí} (the name of a place in Xinjiang)
• Wèisurname Wei

Words starting with 尉

• 尉迟Yù chítwo-character surname Yuchi
• 尉氏县Wèi shì XiànWeishi, a county in Kaifeng City 开封市
• 尉迟恭Yù chí GōngGeneral Yuchi Gong (585-658), famous military man instrumental in founding the Tang…
• 尉犁县Yù lí XiànYuli, a county in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州
• 尉缭Wèi LiáoWei Lao (c. 450 BC, dates of birth and death unknown), advisor to the first Qin emperor…
• 尉缭子Wèi Liáo ziWei Liaozi, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武经七书
• 尉氏Wèi shìsee 尉氏县
• 尉犁Yù lísee 尉犁县

Words containing 尉

• 上尉shàng wèicaptain (military rank)
• 中尉zhōng wèilieutenant (navy); first lieutenant (army); subaltern
• 少尉shào wèisecond lieutenant (army rank)
• 校尉xiào wèimilitary officer
• 大尉dà wèicaptain (army rank); senior captain
• 廷尉tíng wèichief judicial officer in imperial China
• 卫尉wèi wèicommander of the imperial guards
• 都尉dū wèimilitary rank
• 骑都尉qí dū wèi(archaic) cavalry commandant; cavalry captain
• 摸金校尉mō jīn xiào wèi(idiom) military title said to have existed in the Han dynasty, allegedly granted to…
• 陆军中尉lù jūn zhōng wèilieutenant

Characters that look like 尉

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 斯sī(phonetic); this
• 副fùsecondary; auxiliary; deputy
• 剧jùtheatrical work (play, opera, TV series etc); dramatic (change, increase etc); acute
• 耕gēngto plow; to till
• 剔tīto scrape the meat from bones; to pick (teeth etc); to weed out
• 剜wānto scoop out; to gouge out

Sounds the same

Read wèi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 位position; location; place
• 喂hey; to feed (an animal, baby, invalid etc)
• 未not yet; did not; have not
• 卫to guard; to protect; to defend
• 味taste; smell; (fig.) (noun suffix) feel
• 谓to speak; to say; to name
• 慰to comfort; to console; to reassure
• 胃stomach
• 畏to fear
• 魏tower over a palace gateway (old)
• 蔚Artemisia japonica; luxuriant; resplendent
• 渭the Wei River in Shaanxi through the Guanzhong Plain 关中平原