wèi

guard

Evolution

衞 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
衞 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
衞 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
衞 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

 

wèi

guard, protect, defend; variant of |[wèi]; to guard; to defend

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+885E

Shuowen

“衞,宿衞也。从韋、帀,从行。行,列衞也。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License