The 韋 family
韋 · wéi · ㄨㄟˊ — soft leather
Know 韋 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 衛、圍、偉、違. In traditional Chinese, most characters carry a sound component — a phonetic — and learning the phonetic once lights up its whole family. This page is that family, drawn live from the map.
The characters
One sound, many meanings: the 部首 beside each character is the other half of the pair, the part that tells them apart.
- 衛wèi · ㄨㄟˋ部首 行 · to goto guard; to protect83%
- 圍wéi · ㄨㄟˊ部首 囗 · enclosureto encircle; to surround93%
- 偉wěi · ㄨㄟˇ部首 亻 單人旁 · personbig; large83%
- 違wéi · ㄨㄟˊ部首 辶 走之旁 · walkto disobey; to violate93%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 韋 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 韋 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 88%.
Words this family builds
- 大衛
- 偉大
- 周圍
- 範圍
- 衛星
- 違反
- 警衛
- 包圍
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