巍 — Chinese character
巍
wēi
high, lofty; eminent, majestic
- Pinyin
- wēi
- Radical
- 46 ⼭ (Mountain)
- Strokes
- 20
- Components
- 山 魏
- Formation
- pictophonetic — mountain; meaning component 山; sound component 魏
- Japanese
- 巍 as a kanji
Common words with 巍
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 巍峨 | wēi é | lofty; towering |
| 巍巍 | wēi wēi | towering; imposing |
| 巍然 | wēi rán | majestic; towering |
| 巍然屹立 | wēi rán yì lì | to stand tall and rock-solid (idiom); towering majestically |
| 颤巍巍 (顫巍巍) | chàn wēi wēi | trembling; swaying |
| 崔巍 | cuī wēi | tall; towering |
| 颤巍 (顫巍) | chàn wēi | see 颤巍巍 (chàn wēi wēi) |
English words written with 巍
巍 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 6 · Mencius 4
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.