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威
威
Translingual
Han character
威 (radical 38 女+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹一女 (IHMV), four-corner 53200, composition ⿵戌女)
References
- KangXi: page 261, character 24
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6259
- Dae Jaweon: page 527, character 27
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1404, character 1
- Unihan data for U+5A01
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
威 | |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 威
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| Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (威) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 崴 | *qruːl |
| 威 | *qul |
| 葳 | *qul |
| 隇 | *qul |
| 蝛 | *qul |
| 鰄 | *qul |
| 楲 | *qul |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 戌 + 女.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄨㄟ
- Wade-Giles: wei1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uei
- IPA (key): /u̯eɪ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: wai1
- Yale: wāi
- Cantonese Pinyin: wai1
- IPA (key): /wɐi̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ui
- Tâi-lô: ui
- Phofsit Daibuun: uy
- IPA (Xiamen): /ui⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /ui³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ui⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /ui⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ui⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 威 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /uei⁵⁵/ |
| Harbin | /uei⁴⁴/ | |
| Tianjin | /vei²¹/ | |
| Jinan | /vei²¹³/ | |
| Qingdao | /ve²¹³/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /uei²⁴/ | |
| Xi'an | /uei²¹/ | |
| Xining | /uɨ⁴⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /vei⁴⁴/ | |
| Lanzhou | /vei³¹/ | |
| Ürümqi | /vei⁴⁴/ | |
| Wuhan | /uei⁵⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /uei⁵⁵/ | |
| Guiyang | /uei⁵⁵/ | |
| Kunming | /uei⁴⁴/ | |
| Nanjing | /uəi³¹/ | |
| Hefei | /ue²¹/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /vei¹¹/ |
| Pingyao | /uei¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /vei³¹/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /ue⁵³/ |
| Suzhou | /ue̞⁵⁵/ | |
| Hangzhou | /ʔui³³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /v̠u³³/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /ue³¹/ |
| Tunxi | /ue¹¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /uei³³/ |
| Xiangtan | /uəi³³/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /ui⁴²/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /vi⁴⁴/ |
| Taoyuan | /vui²⁴/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /wɐi⁵³/ |
| Nanning | /wɐi⁵⁵/ | |
| Hong Kong | /wɐi⁵⁵/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /ui⁵⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /uoi⁴⁴/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /y⁵⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /ui³³/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) |
/ui²³/ /ui³⁵/ 俗 |
| Rime | |
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| Character | 威 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 影 (34) |
| Final (韻) | 微 (21) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 於非切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ʔʉi/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ʔʷɨi/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ʔiuəi/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ʔuj/ |
| Li Rong |
/ʔiuəi/ |
| Wang Li |
/ĭwəi/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ʔwe̯i/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
wēi |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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| Character | 威 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
wēi |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ ʔjwɨj › |
| Old Chinese |
/*ʔuj/ |
| English | awe-inspiring |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 威 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 12789 |
| Phonetic component |
威 |
| Rime group |
微 |
| Rime subdivision |
2 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
威 |
| Old Chinese |
/*qul/ |
Definitions
威
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Compounds
Derived terms from 威
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Japanese
Kanji
威
- intimidate
Readings
- Goon: い (i)
- Kan’on: い (i)
- Kun: おどす (威す, odosu), おどし (威し, odoshi), おどかす (威かす, odokasu)
- Nanori: いさ (isa), たけ (take), たけし (takeshi)
Compounds
Korean
Hanja
威 • (wi) (hangeul 위, revised wi, McCune-Reischauer wi)
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