wěi

gorgeous

Evolution

韡 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

𮧵 () 

wěi

gorgeous

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ʷə[j]ʔ

hjw+jX

wěi

brilliant (flowers)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

Unicode

U+97E1

Shuowen

“,盛也。从,韋聲。《詩》曰:‘萼不。’”


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