wèi

luxuriant

Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

grass

Sound component
wèi, yù, yùn officer

Character Evolution

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

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartʔjwɨjHʔut-sArtemisia
ʔjutʔutArtemisia
Zhengzhangquds
qud
Unicodeqiuət

說文解字

牡蒿也。从艸𤈫聲。

Sources

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