wéi
tanned leather
Simplified form of 韋. Pictograph of feet walking around city walls. The character is based on the original meaning "to surround". The "leather" meaning is a phonetic loan.
Oracle script
Bronze script
Seal script
Clerical script
Traditional script
Simplified script
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
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surname Wei | ||
Wade (name) | ||
Webb, Webber or Weber (name) | ||
Chavez, Spanish name | ||
Zimbabwe |
季旭昇《說文新證》p.476