炜 (wěi): glowing, bright, brilliant
炜 (wěi) is a Chinese character meaning “glowing.” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 火 (semantic) and 韦 (phonetic). It ranks #9999 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 炜 fire. Its radical form 火 (fire) appears in many related characters such as 火 (huǒ, fire), 烟 (yān, smoke), 烧 (shāo, to burn, to cook).
Definitions
- glowing
- bright
- brilliant
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
炜 appears in 0 compound words: 0 as the first character, 0 as the last, and 0 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 炜 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
此役上海久事队两人得分上双,王哲林得到14分,偰李永炜得11分。
cǐ yì shàng hǎi jiǔ shì duì liǎng rén dé fēn shàng shuāng , wáng zhé lín dé dào 1 4 fēn , 偰 lǐ yǒng wěi dé 1 1 fēn .
In this game, two players from the Shanghai Jiushi team scored in double figures: Wang Zhelin had 14 points, and Li Yongwei had 11 points.
本届亚运会,中国队派出张博恒和孙炜参加男子个人全能比赛。
běn jiè yà yùn huì , zhōng guó duì pài chū zhāng bó héng hé sūn wěi cān jiā nán zǐ gè rén quán néng bǐ sài .
At this year's Asian Games, the Chinese team fielded Zhang Boheng and Sun Wei in the men's individual all-around competition.
中国篮球名宿刘炜提出,教练最需要提升的是辨别信息的能力,数据不能完全替代人的判断。
zhōng guó lán qiú míng sù liú wěi tí chū , jiào liàn zuì xū yào tí shēng de shì biàn bié xìn xī de néng lì , shǔ jù bù néng wán quán tì dài rén de pàn duàn .
Liu Wei, a legendary figure in Chinese basketball, pointed out that the most important skill coaches need to improve is their ability to analyze information, as data cannot completely replace human judgment.
第45分钟,茂名队打出精彩配合,球员苏炜键突入禁区捅射得手,将比分扳平。
dì 4 5 fēn zhōng , mào míng duì dǎ chū jīng cǎi pèi hé , qiú yuán sū wěi jiàn tū rù jìn qū tǒng shè dé shǒu , jiāng bǐ fēn bān píng .
In the 45th minute, the Maoming team executed a brilliant play, with player Su Weijian breaking into the penalty area and slotting the ball home to tie the game.
王金炜认为,民族文化的交融互鉴,突出了铸牢中华民族共同体意识这一主线的要求。
wáng jīn wěi rèn wéi , mín zú wén huà de jiāo róng hù jiàn , tū chū le zhù láo zhōng huá mín zú gòng tóng tǐ yì shí zhè yī zhǔ xiàn de yào qiú .
Wang Jinwei believes that the integration and mutual learning of ethnic cultures underscore the central requirement of forging a strong sense of the Chinese national community.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 火 (fire) component
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