魏伯阳 | [ weì bó yáng ] Wei Boyang (c. 100-170), Chinese author and alchemist |
魏国 | [ weì 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 | [ weì zhēng ] Wei Zheng (580-643), Tang politician and historian, notorious as a critic, editor of History of the Sui Dynasty 隋書|隋书 |
魏德迈 | [ weì dé maì ] Wedemeyer (name), Albert Coady Wedemeyer (1897-1989), US Army commander |
魏忠贤 | [ weì zhōng xián ] Wei Zhongxian (1568-1627), infamous eunuch politician of late Ming |
魏晋 | [ weì jìn ] Wei (220-265) and Jin (265-420) dynasties |
魏晋南北朝 | [ weì jìn nán beǐ chaó ] Wei, Jin and North-South dynasties, generic term for historic period 220-589 between Han and Sui |
魏书 | [ weì shū ] History of Wei of the Northern Dynasties, tenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled by Wei Shou 魏收[Wei4 Shou1] in 554 during Northern Qi Dynasty 北齊|北齐[Bei3 Qi2], 114 scrolls |
魏格纳 | [ weì gé nà ] Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), German meteorologist and geophysicist, the originator of the theory of continental drift |
魏玛 | [ weì mǎ ] Weimar |
魏县 | [ weì xiàn ] Wei county in Handan 邯鄲|邯郸[Han2 dan1], Hebei |
魏都区 | [ weì dū qū ] Weidu district of Xuchang city 許昌市|许昌市[Xu3 chang1 shi4], Henan |
⇒ 围魏救赵 | [ weí weì jiù zhaò ] lit. to besiege 魏[Wei4] and rescue 趙|赵[Zhao4] (idiom), fig. to relieve a besieged ally by attacking the home base of the besiegers |
⇒ 后魏 | [ hoù weì ] Wei of the Northern Dynasties 386-534 |
⇒ 东魏 | [ dōng weì ] Eastern Wei of the Northern dynasties (534-550), formed from the break-up of Wei of the Northern Dynasties 北魏 |
⇒ 汉末魏初 | [ hàn mò weì chū ] late Han and early Wei (roughly, first half of 3rd century AD) |
⇒ 阿育魏实 | [ ā yù weì shí ] seed of ajwain, Semen Trachyspermi coptici |