韋

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See also: 韦
韋 U+97CB, 韋
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-97CB
← 韊
[U+97CA] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 韌 →
[U+97CC]
⾱ U+2FB1, ⾱
KANGXI RADICAL TANNED LEATHER
← ⾰
[U+2FB0] 		Kangxi Radicals ⾲ →
[U+2FB2]

Translingual

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Stroke order

Han character

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Radical 178 韋

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

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Descendants

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References

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  • 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

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trad. 韋
simp. 韦

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 韋
Shang Western Zhou Spring and Autumn Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Qin slip script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
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

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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/
Bernhard
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 		/*[ɢ]ʷə[j]/ /*[ɢ]ʷə[j]/
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. *[t] 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

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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

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References

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Japanese

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Kanji

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韋

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

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Compounds

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Compounds

Korean

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Hanja

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韋 (eum 위 (wi))

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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韋: Hán Nôm readings: vi

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