LOGOI

The corpus record — Literary Chinese

wèi

say, tell; call, name; be called

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Where it lives

What it meant — Unihan character definitions

say, tell; call, name; be called

In the wild

6 of 375 attestations shown.

Chinese texts (Daodejing, Analects, Zhuangzi, Mencius) are public domain by age; transcriptions from Kanripo and Wikisource (CC BY-SA 4.0). Readings via Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).