Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

偉: admirable, greatness

Also: remarkable, conceited, famous, excellent

JLPT N312 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

亻 carries the meaning · 韋 gives the sound

12 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

イi · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 偉才いさいgreat talent
  • 偉業いぎょうgreat enterprise
  • 偉大ないだいなgreat, grand
  • 偉大いだい
  • 偉人いじんgreat person; eminent figure

えらいerai · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 偉いえらいremarkable

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Memory story · made up to help you remember

“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
More in the 亻 person story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
亻

Also built on person (亻)

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韋

Also built on 韋

偉 takes the 韋 family's reading, イ (i).

Also read イ

31 kanji share this on'yomiAll 31

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
偉 admirable · 亻
vs違 difference · ⻌
偉 has 亻 where 違 has ⻌.
In ChineseSimplified 伟 · traditional, as in Japanese · wěi

Japan keeps the traditional form 偉; mainland China simplifies it to 伟.

Simplified
伟 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
偉 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin wěi most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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