畏

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 甶 (“spirit (abbreviated as 田)”) + 爪 (“claws, lower portion of 虎, tiger”) – a spirit/demon in shock/fear because of the claws (of a tiger).

From the Shuowen: “从甶，虎省。鬼頭而虎爪，可畏也。𤰲，古文省。” (“From 甶 and abridged 虎 [written as such in the Lesser Seal Script]. The head of a ghost encountering and frightened by the claws of a tiger. In the older script, [picture not shown, written with 甶 on top and 爪 below.]”)

胃 has an identical pronunciation and also features 田 on the top, but isn't related accord to the Shuowen, although it's used as the fǎnqiè of 畏.

Han character

畏 (radical 102 田+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 田一女 (WMV), four-corner 6073₂)

1. fear, dread, awe, reverence

Derived characters

• 喂 餵 謂 猥

References

• KangXi: page 760, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21778
• Dae Jaweon: page 1170, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2532, character 3
• Unihan data for U+754F

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Cantonese

Hanzi

畏 (Yale wai3)

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Japanese

Kanji

畏

Readings

• On: い (i)
• Kun: おそれる (osoreru), かしこし (kashikoshi), かしこまる (kashikomaru)

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Korean

Hanja

畏 (hangeul 외, revised oe, McCune-Reischauer oe, Yale oy)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

畏 (pinyin wèi (wei4), Wade-Giles wei⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

畏 (úy, uý, hoáy, hoay)