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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 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 ...
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.
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
Modern Han Chinese consists of about 412 syllables [1] in 5 tones, so homophones abound and most non-Han words have multiple possible transcriptions. This is particularly true since Chinese is written as monosyllabic logograms, and consonant clusters foreign to Chinese must be broken into their constituent sounds (or omitted), despite being thought of as a single unit in their original language.
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
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Mandarin on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Mandarin in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Weiguo is the Mandarin Pinyin spelling of three Chinese masculine given names (see table). These names are also spelled Wei-kuo in Mandarin Wade-Giles (used in Taiwan), Wai-kwok in typical Hong Kong Cantonese spelling, or Wee-kok in Minnan pronunciation.