Cojak

Hanzi Character Search: 尉

5C09

尉
officer, military rank
Radical
Strokes (without radical) 8 Total Strokes 11
Mandarin reading weì Cantonese reading wai3 wat1
Japanese on reading i Japanese kun reading osaeru yasunjiru
Korean reading wi wul Vietnamese reading
Specialized Semantic Variant(s)

CEDICT Entries:

   [ weì shì xiàn ]    Weishi county in Kaifeng 開封|开封[Kai1 feng1], Henan
   [ xiàn ]    Lopnur nahiyisi or Yuli county in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州[Ba1 yin1 guo1 leng2 Meng3 gu3 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang
   [ weì ]    Wei Lao (c. 450 BC, dates of birth and death unknown), advisor to the first Qin emperor Qin Shihuang 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2], possible author of the Wei Liaozi 尉繚子|尉缭子[Wei4 Liao2 zi5] text on military strategy
   [ weì zi ]    Wei Liaozi, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 shu1], possibly written by Wei Liao 尉繚|尉缭[Wei4 Liao2] during the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)
   [ chí ]    surname Yuchi
   [ chí gōng ]    General Yuchi Gong (585-658), famous military man instrumental in founding the Tang dynasty
⇒    [ weì weì ]    Commandant of Guards (in imperial China), one of the Nine Ministers 九卿[jiu3 qing1]
⇒    [ jūn zhōng weì ]    lieutenant

RSS