Read Edit View history 为 wèiwéi HSK2 do Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents ← Back to history approved by Peter Olson · Oct 9, 2020, 05:42 AM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Oct 9, 2020, 05:42 AM verify, add source Changed fields: hint, isVerified, components, customSources Simplified form of 為. Pictograph of a hand (又) guiding an elephant (象) to do work (in ancient China elephants were tamed to do work). Based on the meaning "to work; to do". Components 又 又 Iconic component Change in form Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 又 than it was in ancient scripts.象 象 IconicSimplified component Sources Character origin 季旭昇《說文新證》p.194Readings & variants Unicode