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Pronunciationwěi
Five Elements
FortuneAuspicious
Strokes11 strokes

Basic Info

Pronunciation wěi
Five Elements
Fortune Auspicious
Radical
Simplified Strokes 6 strokes
Traditional Strokes 11 strokes
Traditional Form:

Naming Meaning

Kangxi Dictionary

View Original Page 110
View Original Page 110
Zi Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Person (rén) 偉 Kangxi strokes: 11; page 110 From Tangyun (Tangyun): Pronounced yù guǐ qiè. From Jiyun (Jiyun) and Yunhui (Yunhui): Pronounced yǔ guǐ qiè, with the sound wěi. Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen Jiezi) states it means "unusual" or "extraordinary." Xu Xuan (Xu曰) comments: "talents are outstanding and magnificent." Zengyun (Zengyun) states it means "great" or "large." In Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), "Hereditary House of Ping": "Zhang Fu, having already seen him at the mourning site, alone regarded Ping as magnificent." In Hanshi Waizhuan (Hanshi Waizhuan): "The benevolent love what is grand; the harmonious love what is understated." Also a surname. Wei Zhang, Grand Master of Guanglu in the Han dynasty. From Zhengyun (Zhengyun): Pronounced yú guì qiè, with the sound wèi. In Lu Ji's Rhapsody on Literature (Wenfu): "Those tangled thorns, left untrimmed, also receive glory from the gathered emerald. Connecting the rustic with the elegant, I too complete that which is considered grand."

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