wěi
reed
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 韋 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
3233rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8466 |
Shuowen | “葦，大葭也。从艸，韋聲。” |
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