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闱

wéi

Character Traditional 闈

What 闱 means

1. door to women's room
2. gate to palace

Words containing 闱

• 春闱chūn wéimetropolitan civil service examination (held triennially in spring in imperial times)…
• 秋闱qiū wéiautumn exam (triennial provincial exam during Ming and Qing)

Characters built on 韦

These share the phonetic component 韦 (wéi), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 围wéito encircle; to surround; all around
• 违wéito disobey; to violate; to separate
• 伟wěibig; large; great
• 纬wěilatitude; woof (horizontal thread in weaving); weft
• 苇wěireed; rush; Phragmites communis
• 玮wěi(reddish jade); precious; rare
• 炜wěiglowing; bright; brilliant
• 韪wěicorrect; right

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
• 圩dike
• 囗enclosure
• 桅mast
• 帷curtain; screen
• 帏curtain; women's apartment; tent