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Mythic Mandarin

委 (wěi): meaning and stroke order

委 (wěi) means to entrust, to cast aside, to shift (blame etc), to accumulate, roundabout, winding.

委

Simplified
委
Traditional
委 (same form)
Pinyin
wěi · wēi

Stroke order of 委

委

  • Wěi surname Wei
  • wēi used in 委蛇[wei1 yi2]
  • wěi to entrust; to cast aside
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 委

  1. wěi
    • to entrust
    • to cast aside
    • to shift (blame etc)
    • to accumulate
    • roundabout
    • winding
    • dejected
    • listless
    • committee member
    • council
    • end
    • actually
    • certainly
  2. Wěi
    • surname Wei
  3. wēi
    • used in 委蛇[wei1 yi2]

Radical and structure

委
Radical 女 (Kangxi radical 38) · 8 strokes · 禾 on top, 女 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 委

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).