wèi

(a variant of U+71A8 熨) to iron

Evolution

㷉 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

 

wèi

(a variant of U+71A8 ) to iron, an iron for smoothing garments (same as ) to still; to quiet, a military official

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ʔut-s

'jw+jH

wèi

dominate


Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+3DC9

Shuowen

“尉,从上案下也。从、又,持火以尉申繒也。”


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