纬 (wěi): latitude, woof (horizontal thread in weaving), weft
纬 (wěi) is a Chinese character meaning “latitude.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 纟 (semantic) and 韦 (phonetic). It ranks #2562 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 纬 thread. Its radical form 纟 (silk) appears in many related characters such as 系 (xì, to connect), 累 (lěi, to accumulate), 绍 (shào, to continue).
Definitions
- latitude
- woof (horizontal thread in weaving)
- weft
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 北纬 | běi wěi | north latitude |
| 纬度 | wěi dù | latitude |
| 南纬 | nán wěi | south latitude |
| 纬线 | wěi xiàn | woof |
| 经纬 | jīng wěi | warp and woof |
| 高纬度 | gāo wěi dù | high latitude (i.e. near the poles) |
| 经纬线 | jīng wěi xiàn | lines of latitude and longitude |
| 地心纬度 | dì xīn wěi dù | geocentric latitude (i.e. angle between the equatorial plane and straight line from center of the earth) |
| 地理纬度 | dì lǐ wěi dù | geographic latitude (i.e. angle between the equatorial plane and the normal to the reference ellipsoid) |
| 经纬密度 | jīng wěi mì dù | (textiles) thread count |
| 蒋纬国 | jiǎng wěi guó | Chiang Wei-kuo (1916-1997), adopted son of Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石 |
| 经纬仪 | jīng wěi yí | theodolite |
| 纬线圈 | wěi xiàn quān | line of latitude |
| 纬圈 | wěi quān | line of latitude |
| 谶纬 | chèn wěi | divination combined with mystical Confucian philosopy, prevalent during the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220) |
纬 appears in 17 compound words: 35 as the first character, 24 as the last, and 41 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 纬 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
纬字由7笔画组成，结构很巧妙。
wěi zì yóu bǐ huà zǔ chéng , jié gòu hěn qiǎo miào .
The character "纬" consists of seven strokes and features a remarkably ingenious structure.
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Character Family
纟 Radical Family — Characters sharing the silk radical
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