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Hanzi Character Search: 魏

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魏
kingdom of Wei; surname
Radical
Strokes (without radical) 8 Total Strokes 18
Mandarin reading weì weí weī Cantonese reading ngai6
Japanese on reading gi Japanese kun reading takai
Korean reading wi Vietnamese reading
Semantic Variant(s)

CEDICT Entries:

   [ weì yáng ]    Wei Boyang (c. 100-170), Chinese author and alchemist
   [ 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
   [ 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
   [ weì maì ]    Wedemeyer (name), Albert Coady Wedemeyer (1897-1989), US Army commander
   [ weì zhōng xián ]    Wei Zhongxian (1568-1627), infamous eunuch politician of late Ming
   [ weì jìn ]    Wei (220-265) and Jin (265-420) dynasties
   [ weì jìn nán beǐ chaó ]    Wei, Jin and North-South dynasties, generic term for historic period 220-589 between Han and Sui
   [ 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
   [ weì ]    Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), German meteorologist and geophysicist, the originator of the theory of continental drift
   [ weì ]    Weimar
   [ weì xiàn ]    Wei county in Handan 邯鄲|邯郸[Han2 dan1], Hebei
   [ weì ]    Weidu district of Xuchang city 許昌市|许昌市[Xu3 chang1 shi4], Henan
⇒    [ 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
⇒    [ hoù weì ]    Wei of the Northern Dynasties 386-534
⇒    [ dōng weì ]    Eastern Wei of the Northern dynasties (534-550), formed from the break-up of Wei of the Northern Dynasties 北魏
⇒    [ hàn weì chū ]    late Han and early Wei (roughly, first half of 3rd century AD)
⇒    [ ā weì shí ]    seed of ajwain, Semen Trachyspermi coptici

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