wēi
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (classical) a small three-sided cooking stove
  2. 2 (classical) bright; glowing

Examples

Tā zài qiángshàng guà le yì fú shānshuǐhuà.
She hung a landscape painting on the wall.

Tips

history
No standalone use in modern Chinese; a classical word for a small portable stove, with a secondary sense of bright. It is the fire radical plus phonetic .
register
Archaic and literary only; encountered in old texts, not in everyday speech.

Components

radical
huǒ
fire
The fire radical on the left, a pictograph of flames. It supplies the meaning, marking the word as a heat-and-burning object, the same family as and .
phonetic
guī
jade tablet; phonetic
The right side carries the sound, drifted to wēi. The same phonetic gives the reading of and ; here it lends pronunciation only.

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Stroke Order

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