wěi
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 (classical) the brilliant blaze of sunlight

Examples

Tā bǎ yìshēng xiàngěi le wěidà de shìyè.
He devoted his whole life to a great cause.

Tips

history
No standalone use in modern Chinese; a literary word for blazing sunlight, seen in the reduplication 暐暐 and now mostly in given names. It is the sun radical plus phonetic .
register
Archaic and literary; today seen almost only as a name character, not in everyday speech.

Components

radical
sun
The sun radical on the left, a pictograph of the sun. It supplies the meaning, fixing the word as the brilliance of sunlight, the same family as and .
phonetic
wéi
tanned leather; phonetic
The right side carries the sound, read wěi. The same phonetic gives the reading of and ; here it lends pronunciation only.

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Stroke Order

wěi