tuǒwěi

polygala (a medical herb)

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

herb

遠 sound component

  Sound component

yuǎnyuàn

  

distant

Evolution

薳 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
薳 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
薳 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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wěi

name of a herb; surname; (Cant.) a plant stem; (arch.) type of grass

 

Wěi

surname Wei

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

7595th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+85B3

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“薳,艸也。《左氏傳》:‘楚大夫薳子馮。’从艸,遠聲。”


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