委 · wěi
appoint, send, commission
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
appoint, send, commission
- Mandarin
- wěi
- Cantonese
- wai2
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 委 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 위
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
Go deeperHán Việt (Thi Viện) ↗Wiktionary ↗
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+59D4
- Radical
- 女 · 38
- Strokes
- 8 · Unihan
- Residual
- 5
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
8 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 委
Character connections
Component roles · attributed
- 禾 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 禾聲
Line 13974 · ⿱禾女 · 禾聲 · source reference 4431050
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
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History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- 'jwe · 於爲 反切 · #92
- Middle Chinese
- 'jweX · 於詭 反切 · #1206
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 795 · 'jwe = 止合三平支影 · 'jweX = 止合三上支影
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- wěi
- kCantonese
- wai2
- kDefinition
- appoint, send, commission
- kTotalStrokes
- 8
- kRSUnicode
- 38.5
- kGradeLevel
- 4
- kTGH
- 2013:1133
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- wěi,wēi,wèi 21038.040
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- wēi 1192.020 · wěi 1197.120
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- wěi 383.040
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- wěi(668)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- wěi粵wai2 wēi粵wai1
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 於爲 於詭
- Kangxi positions
- 0259.100
- Guangyun positions
- 042.22 241.37
- GSR references
- 0357a
- Cangjie
- HDV
- Four-corner
- 2040.4