wěi
vulgar
Phonosemantic compound. 犭 represents the meaning and 畏 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.8741% of movies
3044th most common character in movies
4270th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+7325 |
Shuowen | “猥，犬吠聲。从犬，畏聲。” |
Sources
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