魏
Meaning
wèi wei4
- tower over a palace gateway (old)
- surname Wei
- name of a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States
- Wei state, founded by Cao Cao 曹操 Cáo Cāo, one of the Three Kingdoms after the Han dynasty
- the Wei dynasty 221–265
- Wei Prefecture or Wei County at various times in history
Example sentences
- Weigongcun subway station has three exits.
Words with 魏
- 阿魏 āwèi Ferula resin (used in TCM)
- 阿育魏实 āyùwèishí seed of ajwain
- 围魏救赵 wéiWèijiùZhào lit. to besiege 魏 (Wèi) and rescue 赵 (Zhào) (idiom)
- 魏县 WèiXiàn Wei County or Weixian, a county in Handan City 邯郸市 (Hán dān Shì), Hebei
- 魏国 Wèiguó Wei State (407-225 BC), one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 戰國七雄|战国七雄
- 西魏 XīWèi Western Wei of the Northern dynasties (535-557), formed from the break-up of Wei of the Northern Dynasties 北魏
- 东魏 DōngWèi Eastern Wei of the Northern dynasties (534-550), formed from the break-up of Wei of the Northern Dynasties 北魏
- 后魏 HòuWèi Wei of the Northern Dynasties 386-534
- 魏书 Wèishū History of Wei of the Northern Dynasties, tenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史 (Èr shí sì Shǐ), compiled by Wei Shou 魏收 (Wèi Shōu) in 554 during Northern Qi Dynasty 北齐 (Běi Qí), 114 scrolls
- 北魏 BěiWèi Wei of the Northern Dynasties (386-534), founded by the Tuoba 拓跋 branch of Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑
- 魏收 WèiShōu Wei Shou (506-572), writer and historian of Northern dynasty Qi 北齐 (Běi Qí), compiler of History of Wei of the Northern dynasties 魏书 (Wèi shū)
- 魏源 WèiYuán Wei Yuan (1794-1857), Qing dynasty thinker, historian and scholar