wěi

brilliant red

Components

Meaning component
huǒ fire

fire

Sound component
wéi, huí tanned leather

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

brilliant red Traditional

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarthjwɨjX[ɢ]ʷə[j]ʔbright
Zhengzhangɢʷɯlʔ

說文解字

盛赤也。从火韋聲。《詩》曰:“彤管有煒。”

Sources

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