韋

See also: 韦

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

1. Kangxi radical #178, ⾱.

Derived characters

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

Descendants

• 韦

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		韋
simp.		韦

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 韋
Shang		Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (韋) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
禕	*qral
郼	*qʷɯl
褘	*qʰʷɯl
諱	*qʰʷɯls
媁	*qʷɯl, *ɢʷɯlʔ
幃	*ɢʷɯl
違	*ɢʷɯl
圍	*ɢʷɯl, *ɢʷɯls
韋	*ɢʷɯl
闈	*ɢʷɯl
湋	*ɢʷɯl
鍏	*ɢʷɯl, *ɢʷɯlʔ
潿	*ɢɯl
韙	*ɢʷɯlʔ
煒	*ɢʷɯlʔ
暐	*ɢʷɯlʔ
偉	*ɢʷɯlʔ
瑋	*ɢʷɯlʔ
葦	*ɢʷɯlʔ
椲	*ɢʷɯlʔ
韡	*ɢʷɯlʔ
愇	*ɢʷɯlʔ
緯	*ɢʷɯls

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɢʷɯl) : 舛 + 囗 – footsteps around an enclosure.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 韋

1. tanned leather
2. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

韋

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: い (i)
• Kan-on: い (i)
• Kun: なめしがわ (nameshigawa, 韋); そむく (somuku)

Compounds

Compounds

• 韋駄天(いだてん) (idaten): Skanda (Buddhism); fast-footed person

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Korean

Hanja

韋 (eum 위 (wi))

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Vietnamese

Han character

韋: Hán Nôm readings: vi

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