wéi zhān

tanned leather; surname; simplified form of KangXi radical number 178

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DEFINITIONS

韦 wéi
  • surname Wei
  • soft leather

STROKES

WORDS

德 wéi dé Wade (name); Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-1895), sinologist 威妥瑪|威妥玛[Wei1 Tuo3 ma3]
伯 wéi bó Webb, Webber or Weber (name); weber (unit of magnetic flux, Wb)
利 wéi lì Waley or Whaley (name); Arthur Waley (1889-1966), pioneer British sinologist
津巴布 jīn bā bù wéi Zimbabwe
斯 chá wéi sī Chavez, Spanish name
科 wéi kē Waco
热尔 rè ěr wéi Gervais (name); Paul Gervais (1816-1879), French geologist
麦克斯 mài kè sī wéi Maxwell (name); James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Scottish physicist and mathematician, the originator of Maxwell's laws of electromagnetism and electromagnetic waves
格纳 wéi gé nà Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), German meteorologist and geophysicist, the originator of the theory of continental drift; also written 魏格納|魏格纳
吕不 lǚ bù wéi Lü Buwei (?291-235 BC), merchant and politician of the State of Qin 秦國|秦国[Qin2 guo2], subsequent Qin Dynasty 秦代[Qin2 dai4] Chancellor, allegedly the father of Ying Zheng 嬴政[Ying2 Zheng4], who subsequently became the first emperor Qin Shihuang 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2]
基拉厄 jī lā wéi è Kilauea, Hawaii, the world's most active volcano
里诺 sài wéi lǐ nuò (Jean-Michel) Severino, CEO of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
布衣带 bù yī wéi dài in hemp cloth and with a leather belt; poorly dressed
梅德杰夫 méi dé wéi jié fū Medvedyev (name); Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (1965-), Russian lawyer and politician, president of Russian Federation from 2008
梅里亚姆・伯斯特 méi lǐ yà mǔ ・ wéi bó sī tè Merriam-Webster (dictionary)
比亚斯托克 bǐ yà wéi sī tuō kè Białystok, city in Poland
瑞德西 ruì dé xī wéi remdesivir (antiviral medication) (loanword)
莫哈沙漠 mò hā wéi shā mò Mojave Desert, southwestern USA
阿昔洛 ā xī luò wéi aciclovir (also spelled acyclovir), antiviral drug
慕庭 wéi mù tíng Clarence Martin Wilbur (1908-1997), US Sinologist and Professor of Columbia University
应物 wéi yìng wù Wei Yinwu (737-792), Tang dynasty poet
斯卡 wéi sī kǎ Uesca or Huesca, Spain
氏拼法 wéi shì pīn fǎ Wade-Giles system (romanization of Chinese)
氏鹟莺 wéi shì wēng yīng (bird species of China) Whistler's warbler (Seicercus whistleri)
尔弗雷兹 wéi ěr fú léi zī (George) Wehrfritz (Beijing bureau chief of Newsweek)
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