(wěi) - great, grand (bound) in Mandarin
wěiTraditional: 伟
#5324 of 5,000 Core 5000
Translation
great, grand (bound)
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound: the 亻(person) radical relates it to human qualities, while 韦 (wéi) gives the sound, yielding the sense of great or impressive.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 亻(person radical) + 韦 (wéi, phonetic)
Stroke order
伟
Examples
。
He is a great scientist.
。
This is a great achievement.
谊。
Their friendship is great.
。
He is a great man.
伟 (wěi) is a bound morpheme meaning great or grand, the core of 伟大 (wěidà, great).
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 伟.
Add to review queue
Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.
Go to my review queueThis word is part of lesson 107.