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wèi
HSK 5freq #3072

Meanings

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wèi
  1. 1.stomach
  2. 2.CL:个[gè]

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.stomach
  2. 2.gizzard of fowl
  3. 3.(Chinese astronomy) Stomach Mansion (one of Twenty-Eight Mansions)

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Etymology

Pictogram (象形): a stomach with food inside, originally appearing as 𱕻. A semantic 肉 was added later to differentiate. The bronze script form merely consisted of two concentric circles. An inner portion of the character was later added, namely a mutated form of the seal script character of 米 ("rice"), representing grains within the stomach (see also 鬯). The character looked like 𦞅 in the small seal script. In the clerical script form, the upper component was simplified to the unrelated 田 as an instance of libian simplification. The ancient form of the character can be seen within the lower component of 𦳊.

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