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Mythic Mandarin

尾 (wěi): meaning and stroke order

尾 (wěi) means tail, remainder, remnant, extremity, sixth of the 28 constellations, classifier for fish.

尾

Simplified
尾
Traditional
尾 (same form)
Pinyin
wěi · yǐ

Stroke order of 尾

尾

  • wěi tail; remainder
  • yǐ horse's tail; pointed posterior section of a locust etc
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 尾

  1. wěi
    • tail
    • remainder
    • remnant
    • extremity
    • sixth of the 28 constellations
    • classifier for fish
  2. yǐ
    • horse's tail
    • pointed posterior section of a locust etc

Radical and structure

尾
Radical 尸 (Kangxi radical 44) · 7 strokes · built from 尸 and 毛

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 尾

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).