煒

See also: 炜

煒 U+7152, 煒 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7152 ← 煑 [U+7151] CJK Unified Ideographs 煓 → [U+7153]

Translingual

Han character

煒 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 火木一手 (FDMQ), four-corner 9585₆, composition ⿰火韋)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 676, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19189
• Dae Jaweon: page 1087, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2220, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7152

Chinese

trad.		煒
simp.		炜

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (韋) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
禕	*qral
郼	*qʷɯl
褘	*qʰʷɯl
諱	*qʰʷɯls
媁	*qʷɯl, *ɢʷɯlʔ
幃	*ɢʷɯl
違	*ɢʷɯl
圍	*ɢʷɯl, *ɢʷɯls
韋	*ɢʷɯl
闈	*ɢʷɯl
湋	*ɢʷɯl
鍏	*ɢʷɯl, *ɢʷɯlʔ
潿	*ɢɯl
韙	*ɢʷɯlʔ
煒	*ɢʷɯlʔ
暐	*ɢʷɯlʔ
偉	*ɢʷɯlʔ
瑋	*ɢʷɯlʔ
葦	*ɢʷɯlʔ
椲	*ɢʷɯlʔ
韡	*ɢʷɯlʔ
愇	*ɢʷɯlʔ
緯	*ɢʷɯls

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wěi (wei³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄟˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wai⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): úi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wěi
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wěi
    • Wade–Giles: wei³
    • Yale: wěi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woei
    • Palladius: вэй (vɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /weɪ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wai⁵
    • Yale: wáih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wai⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: wei⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐi̯¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: úi
    • Tâi-lô: uí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: uie
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ui⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ui⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ui⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ui⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ui⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: hjw+jX

Rime
Character	煒
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	微 (21)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	于鬼切
Baxter	hjw+jX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦʉiX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷɨiX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiuəiX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦujX/
Li Rong	/ɣiuəiX/
Wang Li	/ɣĭwəiX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/we̯iX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wěi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wai5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷə[j]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷɯlʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	煒
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wěi
Middle Chinese	‹ hjwɨjX ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷə[j]ʔ/
English	bright
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	煒
Reading #	1/1
No.	12823
Phonetic component	韋
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	韙
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷɯlʔ/

Definitions

煒

1. glowing; bright; brilliant
2. flaming
3. red and bright

Compounds

• 煒煒 / 炜炜
• 煒燁 / 炜烨

Japanese

Kanji

煒

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. brilliant red
2. glowing

Readings

• On (unclassified): い (i)、き (ki)

Korean

Hanja

煒 • (wi) (hangeul 위, revised wi, McCune–Reischauer wi, Yale wi)

1. crimson
2. glowing

Vietnamese

Han character

煒: Hán Việt readings: vĩ

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