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Mythic Mandarin

魏 (Wèi): meaning and stroke order

魏 (Wèi) means surname Wei.

魏

Simplified
魏
Traditional
魏 (same form)
Pinyin
Wèi

Stroke order of 魏

魏

  • Wèi surname Wei; name of a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States
  • wèi tower over a palace gateway (old)
  • 17 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 魏

  1. Wèi
    • surname Wei
    • name of a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States
    • Wei state, founded by Cao Cao 曹操[Cao2 Cao1], one of the Three Kingdoms after the Han dynasty
    • the Wei dynasty 221–265
    • Wei Prefecture or Wei County at various times in history
  2. wèi
    • tower over a palace gateway (old)

Radical and structure

魏
Radical 鬼 (Kangxi radical 194) · 18 strokes · 委 on the left, 鬼 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 魏

  • 魏国 Wèi guó Wei State (407-225 BC), one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 戰國七雄|战国七雄; Wei State or Cao Wei 曹魏 (220-265), the most powerful of the Three Kingdoms
  • 魏征 Wèi Zhēng Wei Zheng (580-643), Tang politician and historian, notorious as a critic, editor of History of the Sui Dynasty 隋書|隋书

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).