wéi

tanned leather

How it’s built

Pictograph of two feet walking around city walls. The character is based on the original meaning "to surround", which is unrelated to the modern meaning.

Through the ages

Oracle bone script

Seal script

Appears in

Characters that use 韋 as a component, most common first.

違wéito violate 緯wěiwarp and woof 韌rèntough 葦wěireed 諱huìtaboo 偉wěigreat 圍wéito surround

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