wěi

name of a river in honan

Components

Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

water

Sound component
yǒu have

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarthwijX[ɢ]ʷrəʔname of a river
Zhengzhangɢʷɯʔ

說文解字

水。出潁川陽城山,東南入潁。从水有聲。

Sources

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