Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- wēi
English
- high, lofty, majestic, eminent
- lofty
- towering
- Taiwan pr. [wei2]
Variants
Words containing 巍
- 巍然ngai4 jin4
majestic
- 魏巍ngai6 ngai4
Wei Wei (1920–2008), novelist and poet, author of award-winning novel The Orient 東方|东方[Dong1 fang1] about the Korean war
- 顫巍zin3 ngai4
see 顫巍巍|颤巍巍[chan4 wei1 wei1]
- 巍山ngai4 saan1
see 巍山彝族回族自治縣|巍山彝族回族自治县[Wei1 shan1 Yi2 zu2 Hui2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]
- 崔巍ceoi1 ngai4
tall
- 巍峨ngai4 ngo4
lofty
- 巍巍ngai4 ngai4
towering
- 巍巍ngai4 ngai4
towering
- 顫巍巍zin3 ngai4 ngai4
trembling
- 顫巍巍zin3 ngai4 ngai4
trembling
- 巍然屹立ngai4 jin4 ngat6 laap6
to stand tall and rock-solid (idiom)
- 巋巍kwai1 ngai4
adj; towering, tall; lofty
- 巍山縣ngai4 saan1 jyun6
see 巍山彝族回族自治縣|巍山彝族回族自治县[Wei1 shan1 Yi2 zu2 Hui2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]
- 巍山彝族回族自治縣ngai4 saan1 ji4 zuk6 wui4 zuk6 zi6 zi6 jyun6
Weishan Yi and Hui Autonomous County, in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture 大理白族自治州[Da4 li3 Bai2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Yunnan