wèi
taste
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 未 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
wèi
taste, smell, odor; delicacy; taste; smell; (fig.) (noun suffix) feel; quality; sense; (TCM) classifier for ingredients of a medicine prescription
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m[ə]t-s | mj+jH | wèi | taste (n.) |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 71.5361% of movies
560th most common character in movies
844th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+5473 |
Shuowen | “味，滋味也。从口，未聲。” |
Sources
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