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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
A reed warbler feeds a baby cuckoo.
2
Wei has known this for a long time, so he sits here right on through the afternoon and evening.
3
It's used in loading, transporting, stacking and unstacking of wood, grass and reed, bamboo, etc.
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2008
Paul was two-and-a-half years old and had been hatched at another centre at Weymouth in England in 2008.
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It's used in loading, unloading transporting, stacking and unstacking of wood, grass and reed, bamboo, etc.