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(Trad.: 葦)
Pinyin: wěi
English Definition: reed; rush; Phragmites communis
Chinese Definition:
①(芦苇)见“(葦)芦”。
Total strokes: 7; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (grass) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • Above to below
    • [ cǎo ] grass, weed, plant, herb
    • [ wéi ] tanned leather; surname
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Example Words
芦苇 wěi reed
苇席 wěi reed mat
苇箔 wěi reed matting; reed screen
水蒲苇莺 shuǐ wěi yīng (bird species of China) sedge warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus)
远东苇莺 yuǎn dōng wěi yīng (bird species of China) Manchurian reed warbler (Acrocephalus tangorum)
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Example Sentences
1
Wei has known this for a long time, so he sits here right on through the afternoon and evening.
2
Does it represent Yeats's own early cultural nationalism and the work represented in The Wind Among the Reeds and other early poems?
3
1998
A 1998 paper by scientist Andrew Wakefield reported a connection between vaccinations and autism in children. The report set off a vaccination scare that lasts to this day.
4
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In War and Soldier, a Japanese best-seller about the war in China, Ashihei Hino says in describing a defeat: "I actually put my revolver to my head.
5
This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.