English
- kingdom of Wei
- surname Wei
- tower over a palace gateway (old)
- a surname, usually transliterated as "Ngai" ----
- surname
- name of a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States
- name adopted by various states in ancient China, usually transliterated as "Wei"
- Wei state, founded by Cao Cao 曹操[Cao2 Cao1], one of the Three Kingdoms after the Han dynasty
- the Wei dynasty 221–265
- Wei Prefecture or Wei County at various times in history
粵語
- 姓
- 古代中國國名、國號用字，例如戰國時代魏國同三國時代魏國
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 魏
- 後魏hau6 ngai6
Wei of the Northern Dynasties 386-534
- 北魏bak1 ngai6
Wei of the Northern Dynasties (386-534), founded by the Tuoba 拓跋 branch of Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑
- 魏晉ngai6 zeon3
Wei (220-265) and Jin (265-420) dynasties
- 魏國ngai6 gwok3
Wei State (407-225 BC), one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 戰國七雄|战国七雄
- 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
- 東魏dung1 ngai6
Eastern Wei of the Northern dynasties (534-550), formed from the break-up of Wei of the Northern Dynasties 北魏
- 魏都ngai6 dou1
see 魏都區|魏都区[Wei4 du1 Qu1]
- 魏縣ngai6 jyun6
Wei County or Weixian, a county in Handan City 邯鄲市|邯郸市[Han2 dan1 Shi4], Hebei
- 魏書ngai6 syu1
History of Wei of the Northern Dynasties, tenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled by Wei Shou 魏收[Wei4 Shou1] in 554 during Northern Qi Dynasty 北齊|北齐[Bei3 Qi2], 114 scrolls
- 西魏sai1 ngai6
Western Wei of the Northern dynasties (535-557), formed from the break-up of Wei of the Northern Dynasties 北魏
- 阿魏aa3 ngai6
Ferula resin (used in TCM)
- 魏收ngai6 sau1
Wei Shou (506-572), writer and historian of Northern dynasty Qi 北齊|北齐[Bei3 Qi2], compiler of History of Wei of the Northern dynasties 魏書|魏书[Wei4 shu1]
- 魏源ngai6 jyun4
Wei Yuan (1794-1857), Qing dynasty thinker, historian and scholar
- 魏徵ngai6 zi2
Wei Zheng (580-643), Tang politician and historian, notorious as a critic, editor of History of the Sui Dynasty 隋書|隋书
- 魏瑪ngai6 maa5
Weimar, Germany
- 曹魏cou4 ngai6
Cao Wei, the most powerful of the Three Kingdoms, established as a dynasty in 220 by Cao Pi 曹丕, son of Cao Cao, replaced by Jin dynasty in 265
- 拓跋魏tok3 bat6 ngai6
Wei of the Northern Dynasties (386-534)
- 魏晉南北朝ngai6 zeon3 naam4 bak1 ciu4
Wei, Jin and North-South dynasties
- 圍魏救趙wai4 ngai6 gau3 ziu6
lit. to besiege 魏[Wei4] and rescue 趙|赵[Zhao4] (idiom)
- 北魏體bak1 ngai6 tai2
- 魏都區ngai6 dou1 keoi1
Weidu, a district of Xuchang City 許昌市|许昌市[Xu3 chang1 Shi4], Henan
- 魏格納ngai6 gaak3 naap6
Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), German meteorologist and geophysicist, the originator of the theory of continental drift
- 魏京生ngai6 ging1 sang1
Wei Jingsheng (1950-), Beijing-based Chinese dissident, imprisoned 1978-1993 and 1995-1997, released to the US in 1997
- 魏文帝ngai6 man4 dai3
Cao Pi 曹丕, emperor of Wei 220-226