薇 · wēi
Osmunda regalis, a species of fern
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
Osmunda regalis, a species of fern
- Mandarin
- wēi
- Cantonese
- mei4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 薇 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.
Go deeperJisho ↗Wiktionary ↗
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.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 미
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+8587
- Radical
- 艸 · 140
- Strokes
- 16 · Unihan
- Residual
- 13
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
16 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 薇
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 微 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 微聲
Line 14793 · ⿱艹微 · 微聲 · source reference 0120260
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- mij · 武悲 反切 · #170
- Middle Chinese
- mjɨj · 無非 反切 · #211
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 1467 · mij = 止開三平脂明 · mjɨj = 止合三平微明
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
- wēi
- kCantonese
- mei4
- kDefinition
- Osmunda regalis, a species of fern
- kTotalStrokes
- 16
- kRSUnicode
- 140.13
- kTGH
- 2013:3323
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- wēi 53303.120
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- wēi 1192.010
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- wēi 381.130
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- wēi粵mei4
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 武悲 無非
- Kangxi positions
- 1060.210
- Guangyun positions
- 057.22 063.33
- GSR references
- 0584f
- Cangjie
- THOK
- Four-corner
- 4424.8