wěi

woof

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
糹 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silk

is a component form of .

韋 sound component

  Sound component

wéi

  

(surround a city), tanned leather

Evolution

緯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
緯 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

wěi

woof; parallels of latitude; latitude; woof (horizontal thread in weaving); weft

Most common words with 緯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

latitude

北纬

latitude north

纬度

latitude

经纬

warp and woof

南纬

latitude south

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.1213% of movies

3147th most common character in movies

2697th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+7DEF

Shuowen

“緯,織橫絲也。从糸,韋聲。”


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