威
power; might; prestige
9 strokes
Dict coverage rank #468 U+5A01
How 威 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Dominating a woman 女 by force of arms 戈
How to remember it
might · Heisig RSH #371
march + 女 woman
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 威 as their sound component
These characters all use 威 (wēi) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 威 sound component | wēi | might, power, prestige; to dominate |
| 崴 | wǎi | high, lofty, precipitous; to sprain |
| 葳 | wēi | flourishing; luxuriant |
Words containing 威
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 马克斯威尔 | Mǎ kè sī wēi ěr | James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) |
| 新南威尔士州 | Xīn nán wēi ěr shì Zhōu | New South Wales (Australian state) |
| 威海市 | Wēi hǎi Shì | Weihai, prefecture-level city in Shandong Province 山東省|山东省[Shan1 dong1 Sheng3] |
| 马拉威 | Mǎ lā wēi | Malawi (Tw) |
| 新南威尔士 | Xīn nán wēi ěr shì | New South Wales, southeast Australian state |
| 威利斯 | Wēi lì sī | Willis (name) |
| 华威大学 | Huá wēi Dà xué | University of Warwick, Coventry, UK |
| 下马威 | xià mǎ wēi | display of severity immediately on taking office; (fig.) initial show of strength |
| 威尼斯商人 | Wēi ní sī Shāng rén | The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare |
| 威尔士语 | Wēi ěr shì yǔ | Welsh (language) |
| 海明威 | Hǎi míng wēi | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), American novelist and journalist |
| 威尼斯 | Wēi ní sī | Venice; Venezia |
| 威信县 | Wēi xìn Xiàn | Weixin, a county in Zhaotong City 昭通市[Zhao1 tong1 Shi4], Yunnan |
| 斯威士兰 | Sī wēi shì lán | Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) |
| 科威特 | Kē wēi tè | Kuwait |
| 格林威治 | Gé lín wēi zhì | Greenwich |
| 威县 | Wēi Xiàn | Wei County or Weixian, a county in Xingtai City 邢臺市|邢台市[Xing2 tai2 Shi4], Hebei |
| 威尔士 | Wēi ěr shì | Wales, constituent nation of UK |
| 国威 | guó wēi | national prestige |
| 比威力 | bǐ wēi lì | yield-to-weight ratio (of a nuclear weapon) |