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Wei is a Chinese given name. The form 伟 (wěi in pinyin) is the most common Chinese given name, accounting for approximately 0.5% of Chinese people. [1]
Wei Pu (Chinese: 衛朴; Wade–Giles: Wei P'u) was a Chinese astronomer and politician of the Song dynasty (960–1279 AD). He was born a commoner, but eventually; Wei Rugui (Chinese: 衛汝貴; Wade–Giles: Wei Ju-kui; 1836 – 16 January 1895) was a Han Chinese general of the late Qing dynasty who fought in the First Sino-Japanese
Wei Kang (韋康; died 213), courtesy name Yuanjiang, was an official who lived in the late Eastern Han dynasty of China. Empress Wei (韋皇后), wife of Emperor Zhongzong at Tang dynasty period; Wei Yongli (韦永丽), Chinese sprinter; Wei Yi (韦奕), chess player; Wei Wei (韦唯), Chinese singer; Wei Lijie (韦利杰), Chinese Antarctic ...
Wèi (尉) family name originated from Wei family of Zheng (郑国), Yu family of Xia dynasty (复), and royal of Northern Wei (北魏), and many more.. Wei Liao (尉缭, Wèi Liáo) [citation needed] – a strategist of Warring States period, purported writer of the classic military text Wei Liaozi
Therefore, Wei of the Zhang family is called "Zhang Wei" and not "Wei Zhang". In contrast to the relative paucity of Chinese surnames, given names can theoretically include any of the Chinese language's 100,000 characters [1] and contain almost any meaning.
American linguist Benjamin Zimmer has traced mentions in English of the Chinese term for crisis as far as an anonymous editorial in a 1938 journal for missionaries in China. [ 5 ] [ 2 ] The American public intellectual Lewis Mumford contributed to the spread of this idea in 1944 when he wrote: "The Chinese symbol for crisis is composed of two ...
Wei (/ w eɪ /; Chinese: 衞; pinyin: Wèi), commonly spelled Wey to distinguish from the contemporary larger Wei (魏) state, was an ancient Chinese state that was founded in the early Western Zhou dynasty and rose to prominence during the Spring and Autumn period. Its rulers were of the surname Ji (姬), the same as that of the rulers of Zhou.
Wei (/ w eɪ /; [1] Chinese: 魏; pinyin: Wèi) was one of the seven major states during the Warring States period of ancient China. It was created from the three-way Partition of Jin , together with Han and Zhao .