偉

In Japanese kanji, the bottom component of 韋 is written ヰ with four strokes. In traditional Chinese, the bottom component is written 㐄 with three strokes.

偉 (radical 9, 人+9 in Chinese, 人+10 in Japanese, 11 strokes in Chinese, 12 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 人木一手 (ODMQ), four-corner 2425₆, composition ⿰亻韋)

• 𬎉, 𬿭, 𫉔

• 伟 (Simplified Chinese)

• KangXi: page 110, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 837
• Dae Jaweon: page 234, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 198, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5049

Historical forms of the character 偉
Small seal script s05691 Transcribed ancient scripts L34579 L34580 L34581 L34582 L15287 L15288 L15289 L15290
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɢʷɯlʔ) : semantic 亻 + phonetic 韋 (OC *ɢʷɯl).

偉

1. extraordinary; magnificent; great; robust

• 庸 (yōng), 凡 (fán)

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. admirable

• Go-on: い (i, Jōyō)^{←ゐ (wi, historical)}
• Kan-on: い (i, Jōyō)^{←ゐ (wi, historical)}
• Kun: えらい (erai, 偉い, Jōyō); ひいでる (hīderu); すぐれる (sugureru, 偉れる)

/wi/ → /i/

From Middle Chinese 偉 (MC ɦʉi^X).

• On’yomi
  • (Tokyo) い​ [íꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [i]

偉 (hiragana い, rōmaji i, historical hiragana ゐ)

1. (literary) greatness

偉 (-na inflection, hiragana い, rōmaji i, historical hiragana ゐ)

1. (literary) great

偉 (hiragana い, rōmaji i, historical hiragana ゐ)

1. great, excellent, magnificent, extraordinary

偉 • (wi) (hangeul 위, revised wi, McCune–Reischauer wi)

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偉 (vĩ, vỉ)

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