偉

In Japanese kanji, the bottom component of 韋 is written ヰ with four strokes. In Traditional Chinese, the bottom component is written 㐄 with three strokes.

偉 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+9 in Chinese, 人+10 in Japanese, 11 strokes in Chinese, 12 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 人木一手 (ODMQ), four-corner 2425₆, composition ⿰亻韋)

• 𬎉, 𬿭, 𫉔

• 伟 (Simplified Chinese)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 110, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 837
• Dae Jaweon: page 234, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 198, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5049

Historical forms of the character 偉
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
Small seal script s05691 Transcribed ancient scripts L34579 L34580 L34581 L34582 L15287 L15288 L15289 L15290
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɢʷɯlʔ) : semantic 亻 + phonetic 韋 (OC *ɢʷɯl).

偉

1. extraordinary; magnificent; great; robust

• 庸 (yōng), 凡 (fán)

Shinjitai	偉
Kyūjitai [1]	偉󠄃 偉+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(Jōyō kanji)

1. admirable

• Go-on: い (i, Jōyō)^{←ゐ (wi, historical)}
• Kan-on: い (i, Jōyō)^{←ゐ (wi, historical)}
• Kun: えらい (erai, 偉い, Jōyō)、すぐれる (sugureru, 偉れる)、えらぶる (eraburu, 偉ぶる)、ひいでる (hīderu)
• Nanori: いさむ (isamu)、えら (era)、おおい (ōi)、たけ (take)、より (yori)

/wi/ → /i/

From Middle Chinese 偉 (MC hjw+jX).

• (Tokyo) い (Atamadaka – )^[2]
• IPA^(key):

偉(い) • (i) ^{←ゐ (wi)?}

1. (literary) greatness

偉(い) • (i) ^{←ゐ (wi)?}-na (adnominal 偉(い)な (i na), adverbial 偉(い)に (i ni))

1. (literary) great

偉(い) • (i) ^{←ゐ (wi)?}

1. great, excellent, magnificent, extraordinary

偉 (eumhun 훌륭할 위 (hullyunghal wi))

1. hanja form^? of 위 (“to be extraordinary”)

• 위대 (偉大, widae, “greatness”)

偉: Hán Nôm readings: vĩ, vỉ

chữ Hán form of vĩ (“(only in compounds) great, grand”).

chữ Hán form of Vĩ (“a male given name”).