wéi

high

Components

Meaning component
shān mountain

mountain

Sound component
guǐ ghost

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartngwojN-qʰˤujhigh and rocky
ngwojXN-qʰˤujʔhigh and rocky
Zhengzhangŋɡuːl
ŋɡuːlʔ
Unicodenguəi

說文解字

高不平也。从山鬼聲。凡嵬之屬皆从嵬。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica