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wéi

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wéi Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
wéi | wei2
English translation
a river in Shanxi province

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About wéi

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Number of strokes

7

Traditional form

Contains the radical

shuǐ

Part of speech

Isolated morpheme / 语素 yǔ sù Yǔsù

Learning hint

water

Etymology of wéi

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

氵为

Semantic compound

shuǐ

Phonetic compound

wéi

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Example sentences using wéi

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? jìn é Huán wéi Shuài ér 坚强 jiānqiáng zhāo !

So far I also own a strong and handsome alive!

Words with wéi

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
wéi name of a river in Shanxi

wéi Decomposition & Compounds

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