Radical 178

"韦" redirects here. For the surname, see Wéi.

Radical 178 or radical tanned leather (韋部) meaning "tanned leather" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.

韋
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韋 (U+97CB) "tanned leather"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	wéi
Bopomofo:	ㄨㄟˊ
Wade–Giles:	wei2
Cantonese Yale:	wai4
Jyutping:	wai4, wai5
Japanese Kana:	イ i (on'yomi) なめしがわ nameshigawa (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	위 wi
Hán-Việt:	vi, vy
Names
Chinese name(s):	韋字旁/韦字旁 wéizìpáng
Japanese name(s):	なめしがわ nameshigawa
Hangul:	다룸가죽 darumgajuk
Stroke order animation

Stroke order of the simplified form 韦

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 100 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

韦, the simplified form of 韋, is the 63rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while the traditional form 韋 is listed as its associated indexing component.

Evolution

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters (韋)	Characters (韦)
+0	韋	韦SC (=韋)
+3	韌	韧SC (=韌)
+5	韍 韎	韨SC (=韍)
+6	韏 韐 韑
+7	韒 (=鞘 -> 革)
+8	韓 韔 韕	韩SC (=韓)
+9	韖 韗 韘 韙 韚	韪SC (=韙) 韫SC (=韞)
+10	韜 韝 韞 韟	韬SC (=韜)
+11	韛 韠
+12	韡 韢
+13	韣
+15	韤 (=襪 -> 衣) 韥

Further information: wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/韋

Literature

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+97CB