wēi
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (literary) a bend or sheltered nook of a river or hill; a cove

Examples

Yú dōu jù zài hé wān de shēnchù.
Fish gather in the deep, sheltered bend of the river.

Tips

history
is a literary word for the sheltered bend of a river or hill and is not used independently in modern Chinese, which says . Built on the left-mound radical with phonetic ; you meet it in classical prose and rhapsodies.
register
Literary and archaic. Use in modern Chinese for a bend or cove.

Components

radical
mound; hill (left-side form)
On the left this is the 'mound / hill' radical (the side form of ), fitting a sheltered nook in terrain. It is the indexing radical of .
phonetic
wèi
to fear; (here) phonetic
The element supplies the sound wēi; it is purely phonetic in .

Stroke Order

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