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巍

wēi

Character

What 巍 means

1. lofty
2. towering
3. Taiwan pr. wéi

Example sentences

• 四面八方都是巍峨的雪峰，将他们包围起来，彼此交错，一直延伸到遥远的地平线。两侧的岩岸陡峭无比，落叶松和松树彷佛悬在他们头顶，只需一阵风就能轰然落下。
  In every direction the great snow-capped peaks hemmed them in, peeping over each other's shoulders to the far horizon. So steep were the rocky banks on either side of them that the larch and the pine seemed to be suspended over their heads, and to need only a gust of wind to come hurtling down upon them.

Words starting with 巍

• 巍峨wēi élofty; towering; majestic
• 巍巍wēi wēitowering; imposing
• 巍然wēi ránmajestic; towering; imposing
• 巍然屹立wēi rán yì lìto stand tall and rock-solid (idiom); towering majestically…
• 巍山彝族回族自治县Wēi shān Yí zú Huí zú Zì zhì xiànWeishan Yi and Hui Autonomous County, in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture 大理白族自治州
• 巍山Wēi shānsee 巍山彝族回族自治县
• 巍山县Wēi shān Xiànsee 巍山彝族回族自治县

Words containing 巍

• 颤巍巍chàn wēi wēitrembling; swaying; flickering
• 崔巍cuī wēitall; towering
• 魏巍Wèi WēiWei Wei (1920–2008), novelist and poet, author of award-winning novel The Orient 东方
• 颤巍chàn wēisee 颤巍巍

Characters that look like 巍

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

• 魔mó(bound form) evil spirit; devil; (prefix) supernatural; magical
• 蠢chǔnstupid; sluggish; clumsy
• 癫diānmentally deranged; crazy
• 巅diānsummit
• 瀛yíngocean
• 籁làia sound; a noise; musical pipe with 3 reeds

Sounds the same

Read wēi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 危danger; to endanger; Taiwan pr. wéi
• 微tiny; miniature; slightly
• 威power; might; prestige
• 薇Osmunda regalis, a species of fern; Taiwan pr. wéi
• 偎to cuddle
• 煨to simmer; to roast in ashes
• 委used in 委蛇
• 崴high, lofty; precipitous
• 葳luxuriant
• 隈bay; cove
• 逶used in 逶迤
• 揻(dialect) to bend (a long and thin object)