wèi
fear
Pictograph of a ghost (鬼) wielding a stick (卜), which is a fearful sight to behold. 鬼 is also a sound component.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ʔuj-s | 'jw+jH | wèi | fear (v.); threaten |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 8.4575% of movies
2144th most common character in movies
2039th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+754F |
Shuowen | “畏，惡也。从甶，虎省。鬼頭而虎爪，可畏也。，古文省。” |
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