韦
Tap the pinyin to hear it
soft leather
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 韋 itself
- Structure
- Overlaid 叠加
- Traditional
- 韋
- Common rank
- #1,864
- Unicode
- U+97E6
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 韦 is formed
How to remember it
tanned hide · Heisig RSH #1227
— as a component also called: briar patch
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 韦
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 比亚韦斯托克 | Białystok, city in Poland | |
| 梅里亚姆·韦伯斯特 | Merriam-Webster (dictionary) | |
| 布衣韦带 | in hemp cloth and with a leather belt; poorly dressed | |
| 麦克斯韦 | Maxwell (name); James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Scottish physicist and mathematician, the… | |
| 韦斯卡 | Uesca or Huesca, Spain | |
| 热尔韦 | Gervais (name); Paul Gervais (1816-1879), French geologist | |
| 韦应物 | Wei Yingwu (c. 737 – c. 792), Tang dynasty poet | |
| 韦格纳 | Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), German meteorologist and geophysicist, the originator of the t… | |
| 韦尔瓦 | Huelva, Spain | |
| 瑞德西韦 | remdesivir (antiviral medication) (loanword) | |
| 查韦斯 | Chavez, Spanish name | |
| 塞韦里诺 | (name) Severino | |
| 津巴布韦 | Zimbabwe | |
| 韦编三绝 | lit. the leather binding (of the bamboo scroll) has broken three times; fig. to study dili… | |
| 梅德韦杰夫 | Medvedyev (name); Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (1965-), Russian lawyer and politician, pre… | |
| 韦氏拼法 | Wade-Giles system (romanization of Chinese) | |
| 韦利 | Waley or Whaley (name); Arthur Waley (1889-1966), pioneer British sinologist | |
| 韦尔弗雷兹 | (George) Wehrfritz (Beijing bureau chief of Newsweek) | |
| 韦德 | Wade (name); Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-1895), sinologist 威妥瑪|威妥玛[Wei1 Tuo3 ma3] | |
| 奥司他韦 | (loanword) oseltamivir |
Sound family
These characters use 韦 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 韦 sound part | tanned leather; surname | |
| 围 | to surround, to encircle, to corral | |
| 违 | to violate, to disobey, to defy; to separate from | |
| 伟 | great, imposing; extraordinary | |
| 苇 | reed | |
| 纬 | warp and woof; lines of latitude | |
| 讳 | taboo; to shun, to conceal, to avoid mentioning | |
| 韪 | right; proper; perpriety | |
| 闱 | gate, door; living quarters | |
| 玮 | a type of red jade; rare, valuable | |
| 帏 | a curtain that forms a wall | |
| 炜 | brilliant, glowing, red | |
| 祎 | excellent, rare; beautiful, fine |