未 — Chinese character
未
wèi
not yet; 8th terrestrial branch
- Pinyin
- wèi
- Radical
- 75 ⽊ (Tree)
- Strokes
- 5
- Components
- 一 木
- Formation
- ideographic — A wheat plant that has not yet borne fruit; compare 來
- Japanese
- 未 as a kanji
Common words with 未
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 未来 (未來) | wèi lái | future; tomorrow |
| 尚未 | shàng wèi | not yet; still not |
| 从未 (從未) | cóng wèi | never |
| 并未 (並未) | bìng wèi | (used to stress that sth did not turn out as one might have expected) did not actually ...; has not actually ... |
| 未能 | wèi néng | cannot; to fail to |
| 未经 (未經) | wèi jīng | not having undergone; without (having gone though a certain process) |
| 未必 | wèi bì | not necessarily; maybe not |
| 未知 | wèi zhī | unknown |
| 未成年 | wèi chéng nián | underage |
| 前所未有 | qián suǒ wèi yǒu | (idiom) unprecedented |
| 未曾 | wèi céng | hasn't (or haven't); hasn't ever |
| 未有 | wèi yǒu | is not; has never been |
English words written with 未
- never
- future
- minor
- unknown
- attempted
- approaching
- uncertainty
- pending
- unprecedented
- understandable
- unsuccessful
- unfinished
未 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 7 · Analects 57 · Art of War 7 · I Ching 4 · Mencius 89 · Zhuangzi 179 · Great Learning 7 · Doctrine of the Mean 7
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 20
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 55
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 64
- Analects 1.2
- Analects 1.7
- Analects 1.15
- Analects 3.24
- Analects 3.25
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