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Mythic Mandarin

味 (wèi): meaning and stroke order

味 (wèi) means taste, smell, (fig.) (noun suffix) feel, quality, sense.

味

Simplified
味
Traditional
味 (same form)
Pinyin
wèi

Stroke order of 味

味

  • wèi taste; smell
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 味

  1. wèi
    • taste
    • smell
    • (fig.) (noun suffix) feel
    • quality
    • sense
    • (TCM) classifier for ingredients of a medicine prescription

Radical and structure

味
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 8 strokes · 口 on the left, 未 on the right

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 味

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).