wēi

cove

Components

Meaning component
hill, place

place

Sound component
wèi fear

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartʔwoj[ʔ]ˤujbend, nook (n.)
Zhengzhangquːl
quːls
Unicodequəi

說文解字

水曲,隩也。从𨸏畏聲。

Sources

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