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桅

wéi

Character

What 桅 means

1. mast

Words starting with 桅

• 桅杆wéi gānmast

Words containing 桅

• 前桅qián wéiforemast

Characters that look like 桅

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

• 挂guàto hang; to suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone); (of a line) to be dead
• 挽wǎnto pull; to draw (a cart or a bow); to roll up
• 娩miǎnto give birth to a child
• 梳shūto comb; (bound form) a comb
• 捎shāoto bring sth to sb; to deliver
• 桄guāngused in 桄榔

Sounds the same

Read wéi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 为as (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as
• 围to encircle; to surround; all around
• 维to preserve; to maintain; to hold together
• 违to disobey; to violate; to separate
• 唯only; alone; -ism (in Chinese, a prefix, often combined with a suffix such as 主义
• 惟-ism; only
• 韦soft leather
• 闱door to women's room; gate to palace
• 圩dike
• 囗enclosure
• 帷curtain; screen
• 帏curtain; women's apartment; tent