韋

See also: 韦

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): 舛 + 囗 – footsteps around an enclosure.

Han character

韋 (radical 178 韋+0, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木一口手 (DMRQ), four-corner 4050₆)

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/韋
• 葦, 違 圍 衛
• 𩏇, 𩏷, 𩏑, 𢾝, 𩏬, 𩏏, 𠆎

Descendants

• 韦
• 井 (in Japanese compound characters such as 囲)

References

• KangXi: page 1393, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43108
• Dae Jaweon: page 1908, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4503, character 1
• Unihan data for U+97CB

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Chinese

simpl.		韦
trad.		韋

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wéi (wei²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄟˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wai⁴, wai⁵
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): vûi, vúi
• Min Nan (POJ): uî

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: wéi
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˊ
    • Wade-Giles: wei²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wei
    • IPA ^(key): /u̯eɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: wai⁴, wai⁵
    • Yale: wàih, wáih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wai⁴, wai⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /wɐi̯²¹/, /wɐi̯¹³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: vûi, vúi
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: uî
    • Tâi-lô: uî
    • IPA (Taipei): /ui²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ui¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (韋, reconstructed)
Character (韋), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 云 (35) Final: 微 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 雨非切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɦʉi/	/we̯i/	/ɣiuəi/	/ɦʷɨi/	/ɦuj/	/ɣĭwəi/	/ɣiuəi/

Old Chinese pronunciation (韋, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
韋								wéi								‹ hjwɨj ›								/*[ɢ]ʷə[j]/								leather
韋								wéi								‹ hjwɨj ›								/*[ɢ]ʷə[j]/								go against
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
韋					12817					韋					微					2					幃					/*ɢʷɯl/

Definitions

韋

1. tanned leather
2. A surname​.
3. KangXi radical number 178

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

韋

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: い (i)
• Kun: なめしがわ (nameshigawa), そむく (somuku)

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Korean

Hanja

韋 (wi) (hangeul 위, revised wi, McCune-Reischauer wi, Yale wi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: vi

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