Read Edit View history Discussion 為 wèiwéi HSK2 do Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Basic Details Gloss Iconic Gloss Original Meaning Hint Originally written as 爲, which depicts 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". Pinyin Separate values with commas wèi ×wéi × Add Simplified Variants Separate values with commas 为 × Add Traditional Variants Separate values with commas Add Variant Of Components Character ◎ Hint Depicts a hand. Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 為 Simp strokes 為 Trad strokes Character ◎ Hint Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 為 Simp strokes 為 Trad strokes + Add component Stroke Data 為 Stroke Data (Simp) — JSON { "source": "dong", "medians": [ [ [ 301, 687 ], [ 382, 586 ] ], [ [ 500, 813 ], [ 538, 762 ], [ 393, 453 ], [ 258, 251 ], [ 65, 38 ] ], [ [ 185, 511 ], [ 295, 508 ], [ 572, 558 ], [ 623, 524 ], [ 562, 453 ] ], [ [ 392, 390 ], [ 652, 443 ], [ 686, 406 ], [ 657, 350 ], [ 628, 339 ] ], [ [ 298, 252 ], [ 545, 304 ], [ 780, 330 ], [ 821, 318 ], [ 848, 286 ], [ 780, -1 ], [ 743, -41 ], [ 649, 33 ] ], [ [ 293, 182 ], [ 337, 56 ] ], [ [ 405, 205 ], [ 458, 119 ] ], [ [ 509, 226 ], [ 577, 149 ] ], [ [ 623, 234 ], [ 683, 179 ], [ 702, 130 ] ] ], "strokes": [ "M315,643C327,630 339,614 352,597C358,589 367,584 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