瑰伟
guī​wěi

magnificent

瑰 guī extraordinary, precious stone

Phonosemantic compound. 玉 represents the meaning and 鬼 represents the sound.

Components

𤣩
𤣩 Meaning component
yù jade
鬼
鬼 Sound component
guǐ ghost

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartkwoj[k]ˤuj kind of precious stone

說文解字

《說文》：“瑰，玫瑰。从玉，鬼聲。一曰圜好。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

伟 wěi great Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 韦 represents the sound. Simplified form of 偉.

Components

亻
亻 Meaning component
rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

韦
韦 Sound component
wéi, huí tanned leather

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode

偉 wěi great Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 韋 represents the sound.

Components

亻
亻 Meaning component
rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

韋
韋 Sound component
(surround a city), tanned leather

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɢʷɯlʔ

說文解字

《說文》：“偉，奇也。从人，韋聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)