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韦

wéi

Character Traditional 韋

What 韦 means

1. soft leather

Other readings

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

• Wéisurname Wei

Example sentences

• 津巴布韦曾经是英国的殖民地。
  Jīnbābùwéi céngjīng shì Yīngguó de zhímíndì.
  Zimbabwe was once a colony of Britain.
• "侏儒流氓"是德国导演韦纳荷索在一九七零年的一部电影。
  Even Dwarfs Started Small is a 1970 film by German director Werner Herzog.

Words starting with 韦

• 韦伯wéi bóweber (unit of magnetic flux, Wb)
• 韦利Wéi lìWaley or Whaley (name); Arthur Waley (1889-1966), pioneer British sinologist
• 韦科Wéi kēWaco
• 韦达Wéi dáFrançois Viète (1540-1603), French mathematician, father of modern algebraic notation
• 韦应物Wéi Yìng wùWei Yingwu (c. 737 – c. 792), Tang dynasty poet
• 韦斯卡Wéi sī kǎUesca or Huesca, Spain
• 韦格纳Wéi gé nàAlfred Wegener (1880-1930), German meteorologist and geophysicist, the originator of the…
• 韦尔瓦Wéi ěr wǎHuelva, Spain
• 韦尔弗雷兹Wéi ěr fú léi zī(George) Wehrfritz (Beijing bureau chief of Newsweek)
• 韦慕庭Wéi Mù tíngClarence Martin Wilbur (1908-1997), US Sinologist and Professor of Columbia University
• 韦氏拼法Wéi shì pīn fǎWade-Giles system (romanization of Chinese)
• 韦驮菩萨Wéi tuó Pú sàSkanda, the general or guardian Bodhisattva
• 韦氏鹟莺Wéi shì wēng yīng(bird species of China) Whistler's warbler (Phylloscopus whistleri)
• 韦编三绝wéi biān sān juélit. the leather binding (of the bamboo scroll) has broken three times…
• 韦德Wéi déWade (name); Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-1895), sinologist 威妥玛
• 韦瓦第Wéi wǎ dìVivaldi (name); Antonio Vivaldi (1675-1741), Italian composer

Words containing 韦

• 津巴布韦Jīn bā bù wéiZimbabwe
• 室韦Shì wéithe Shiwei tribes who inhabited an area to the northeast of Tang-dynasty China
• 查韦斯Chá wéi sīChavez, Spanish name
• 基拉韦厄Jī lā wéi èKilauea, Hawaii, the world's most active volcano
• 塞韦里诺Sài wéi lǐ nuò(name) Severino
• 奥司他韦ào sī tā wéi(loanword) oseltamivir
• 布衣韦带bù yī wéi dàiin hemp cloth and with a leather belt; poorly dressed
• 瑞德西韦ruì dé xī wéiremdesivir (antiviral medication) (loanword)
• 比亚韦斯托克Bǐ yà wéi sī tuō kèBiałystok, city in Poland
• 莫哈韦沙漠Mò hā wéi Shā mòMojave Desert, southwestern USA
• 吕不韦Lǚ Bù wéiLü Buwei (?291-235 BC), merchant and politician of the State of Qin 秦国
• 阿昔洛韦ā xī luò wéiaciclovir (also spelled acyclovir), antiviral drug
• 梅里亚姆·韦伯斯特Méi lǐ yà mǔ · Wéi bó sī tèMerriam-Webster (dictionary)
• 热尔韦Rè ěr wéiGervais (name); Paul Gervais (1816-1879), French geologist
• 麦克斯韦Mài kè sī wéiMaxwell (name); James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Scottish physicist and mathematician…
• 梅德韦杰夫Méi dé wéi jié fūMedvedyev (name); Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (1965-), Russian lawyer and politician…

Characters that look like 韦

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

• 书shūbook; letter; document
• 车chēcar; vehicle; machine
• 币bìmoney; coins; currency
• 弗fú(literary) not; used in transliteration
• 丰fēngluxuriant; buxom; variant of 丰
• 孕yùnpregnant

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
• 闱door to women's room; gate to palace
• 圩dike
• 囗enclosure
• 桅mast
• 帷curtain; screen
• 帏curtain; women's apartment; tent