English
- officer, military rank
- surname Wei
- military officer
- used in 尉遲|尉迟[Yu4 chi2]
- used in 尉犁[Yu4 li2] (the name of a place in Xinjiang)
- a military rank, usually referring to junior officers
粵語
- 軍階用字，通常指較初級嘅軍官
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Variants
Words containing 尉
- 尉遲wat1 ci4
two-character surname Yuchi
- 騎都尉gei6 dou1 wai3
(archaic) cavalry commandant; cavalry captain
- 上尉soeng6 wai3
captain (military rank)
- 中尉zung1 wai3
lieutenant (navy)
- 少尉siu2 wai3
second lieutenant (army rank)
- 尉繚wai3 liu4
Wei Lao (c. 450 BC, dates of birth and death unknown), advisor to the first Qin emperor Qin Shihuang 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2], possible author of the Wei Liaozi 尉繚子|尉缭子[Wei4 Liao2 zi5] text on military strategy
- 大尉daai6 wai3
captain (army rank)
- 都尉dou1 wai3
military rank
- 衛尉wai6 wai3
commander of the imperial guards
- 校尉haau6 wai3
military officer
- 陸軍中尉luk6 gwan1 zung1 wai3
lieutenant
- 尉氏wai3 si6
see 尉氏縣|尉氏县[Wei4 shi4 Xian4]
- 廷尉ting4 wai3
chief judicial officer in imperial China
- 尉犁wai3 lai4
see 尉犁縣|尉犁县[Yu4 li2 Xian4]
- 尉遲恭wai3 ci4 gung1
General Yuchi Gong (585-658), famous military man instrumental in founding the Tang dynasty
- 尉繚子wai3 liu4 zi2
Wei Liaozi, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 shu1], possibly written by Wei Liao 尉繚|尉缭[Wei4 Liao2] during the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)
- 上尉軍官soeng6 wai3 gwan1 gun1
- 尉氏縣wai3 si6 jyun6
Weishi, a county in Kaifeng City 開封市|开封市[Kai1 feng1 Shi4], Henan
- 尉犁縣wai3 lai4 jyun6
Yuli, a county in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州[Ba1 yin1 guo1 leng2 Meng3 gu3 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang
- 摸金校尉mo2 gam1 haau6 wai3
(idiom) military title said to have existed in the Han dynasty, allegedly granted to officials tasked with retrieving gold from tombs to fund military campaigns; (in popular fiction) tomb raider