韦
soft leather
4 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,864 U+97E6
How 韦 is formed
How to remember it
tanned hide · Heisig RSH #1227
— as a component also called: briar patch
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 韦 as their sound component
These characters all use 韦 (wéi) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 韦 sound component | wéi | tanned leather; surname |
| 围 | wéi | to surround, to encircle, to corral |
| 违 | wéi | to violate, to disobey, to defy; to separate from |
| 伟 | wěi | great, imposing; extraordinary |
| 苇 | wěi | reed |
| 纬 | wěi | warp and woof; lines of latitude |
| 讳 | huì | taboo; to shun, to conceal, to avoid mentioning |
| 韪 | wěi | right; proper; perpriety |
| 闱 | wéi | gate, door; living quarters |
| 玮 | wěi | a type of red jade; rare, valuable |
| 帏 | wéi | a curtain that forms a wall |
| 炜 | wěi | brilliant, glowing, red |
| 祎 | yī | excellent, rare; beautiful, fine |
Words containing 韦
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 比亚韦斯托克 | Bǐ yà wéi sī tuō kè | Białystok, city in Poland |
| 梅里亚姆·韦伯斯特 | Méi lǐ yà mǔ · Wéi bó sī tè | Merriam-Webster (dictionary) |
| 布衣韦带 | bù yī wéi dài | in hemp cloth and with a leather belt; poorly dressed |
| 麦克斯韦 | Mài kè sī wéi | Maxwell (name); James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Scottish physicist and mathematician, the… |
| 韦斯卡 | Wéi sī kǎ | Uesca or Huesca, Spain |
| 热尔韦 | Rè ěr wéi | Gervais (name); Paul Gervais (1816-1879), French geologist |
| 韦应物 | Wéi Yìng wù | Wei Yingwu (c. 737 – c. 792), Tang dynasty poet |
| 韦格纳 | Wéi gé nà | Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), German meteorologist and geophysicist, the originator of the t… |
| 韦尔瓦 | Wéi ěr wǎ | Huelva, Spain |
| 瑞德西韦 | ruì dé xī wéi | remdesivir (antiviral medication) (loanword) |
| 查韦斯 | Chá wéi sī | Chavez, Spanish name |
| 塞韦里诺 | Sài wéi lǐ nuò | (name) Severino |
| 津巴布韦 | Jīn bā bù wéi | Zimbabwe |
| 韦编三绝 | wéi biān sān jué | lit. the leather binding (of the bamboo scroll) has broken three times; fig. to study dili… |
| 梅德韦杰夫 | Méi dé wéi jié fū | Medvedyev (name); Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (1965-), Russian lawyer and politician, pre… |
| 韦氏拼法 | Wéi shì pīn fǎ | Wade-Giles system (romanization of Chinese) |
| 韦利 | Wéi lì | Waley or Whaley (name); Arthur Waley (1889-1966), pioneer British sinologist |
| 韦尔弗雷兹 | Wéi ěr fú léi zī | (George) Wehrfritz (Beijing bureau chief of Newsweek) |
| 韦德 | Wéi dé | Wade (name); Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-1895), sinologist 威妥瑪|威妥玛[Wei1 Tuo3 ma3] |
| 奥司他韦 | ào sī tā wéi | (loanword) oseltamivir |