韋

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See also: 韦
韋 U+97CB, 韋
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-97CB
← 韊
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 韌 →
⾱ U+2FB1, ⾱
KANGXI RADICAL TANNED LEATHER
← ⾰
 		Kangxi Radicals ⾲ →

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

韋 (Kangxi radical 178, 韋+0, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木一口手 (DMRQ), four-corner 40506, composition ⿳𫝀口㐄)

  1. Kangxi radical #178, ⾱.

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1393, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43108
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1908, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4503, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+97CB

Chinese

trad. 韋
simp. 韦

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (韋) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
禕 *qral
郼 *qʷɯl
褘 *qʰʷɯl
諱 *qʰʷɯls
媁 *qʷɯl, *ɢʷɯlʔ
幃 *ɢʷɯl
違 *ɢʷɯl
圍 *ɢʷɯl, *ɢʷɯls
韋 *ɢʷɯl
闈 *ɢʷɯl
湋 *ɢʷɯl
鍏 *ɢʷɯl, *ɢʷɯlʔ
潿 *ɢɯl
韙 *ɢʷɯlʔ
煒 *ɢʷɯlʔ
暐 *ɢʷɯlʔ
偉 *ɢʷɯlʔ
瑋 *ɢʷɯlʔ
葦 *ɢʷɯlʔ
椲 *ɢʷɯlʔ
韡 *ɢʷɯlʔ
愇 *ɢʷɯlʔ
緯 *ɢʷɯls

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 舛 + 囗 – footsteps around an enclosure. Possibly the original character for 圍 (OC *ɢʷɯl, *ɢʷɯls, “to surround”). Phonetically borrowed to indicate "tanned leather".

The footprint on top is stylized as 𫝀, which is similar but unrelated to 五.

Pronunciation

Note: ui5 - surname.
Rime
Character 韋
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 微 (21)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 雨非切
Baxter hjw+j
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦʉi/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦʷɨi/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣiuəi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦuj/
Li
Rong 		/ɣiuəi/
Wang
Li 		/ɣĭwəi/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/we̯i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		wéi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		wai4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 韋 韋
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		wéi wéi
Middle
Chinese 		‹ hjwɨj › ‹ hjwɨj ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ʷə/ /*ʷə/
English leather go against

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 韋
Reading # 1/1
No. 12817
Phonetic
component 		韋
Rime
group 		微
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		幃
Old
Chinese 		/*ɢʷɯl/

Definitions

韋

  1. (archaic) tanned leather
  2. Original form of 圍／围 (wéi, “to surround”).
  3. a surname
    韋昌輝／韦昌辉  ―  Wéi Chānghuī  ―  Wei Changhui (North King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom)

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

韋

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

韋 (eum 위 (wi))

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Vietnamese

Han character

韋: Hán Nôm readings: vi

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