The Chinese Radical: 韦


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soft leather    韦

Explanation untanned leather: The raw leather is spliced in two layers with a longer blade of a sword - The radical stands for tanned leather. The radical is used for skin.

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 4
to encircle, to surround, enwrapped
wéi
Left: enclosure , right: soft leather /韋 (Two layers are separated with a special sword to make leather.)
(Think of a shoe 鞋) It makes it enclosed by leather, to be well encircled.
JLPT HSK 5
to disobey, to violate, to separate, to go against
wéi
Left: movement , right: leather (Two layers are separated with special sword to make leather.)
(Cutting is destructive:) If two parts are cut apart with the movement of the sword is disobedient.
JLPT HSK 5
imposing, great, mighty, magnificent
wěi
Left: person , right: leather (Two layers are separated with special sword to make leather)
(Clothing made of linen or similar was for ordinary people.) A person in leather appears imposing.
JLPT HSK 6
latitude, woof (horizontal thread in weaving), weft
wěi
Left: thread 纟/, right: leather (Two layers are separated with special sword to make leather - here: three horizontal 三 weft and a warp at the loom)
The thread as a weft is horizontal like the latitude. (longitude = 经)
JLPT HSK 6
taboo word, to avoid mentioning, concealing
huì
Left: word /, right: leather (Two layers are separated with special sword to make leather)
If a word is analysed up like leather, then it becomes: a taboo.
JLPT HSK 6
resilient, tenacious, tough
rèn
Left: leather (Two layers are separated with special sword to make leather.), right: blade of a sword
Leather and blades should be resilient.
JLPT no HSK
soft leather
wéi
Top: two layers , below: sword , with it's blade drawn upwards between the layers
Two layers are separated with the sword's blade to produce leather.
JLPT no HSK
reed, rush, Phragmites communis
wěi
Top: plant , right: leather (Two layers are separated with special sword to make leather)
The plant that is cut in a bundle (in a pair of two ) with the knife is the: reed.
JLPT no HSK
bow case or scabbard, to hide, military strategy
tāo
Left: leather (Two layers are separated with special sword to make leather), right: (hand reaching down , mortar )
Made of leather and something peeks out from the mortar-like: Bow case.
JLPT no HSK
Korea, esp. South Korea 大韩民国
hán
Left: sunrise (sun rises between plants , here: east of the center [= China], because sun rises eastern), right: leather (Two layers are separated with special sword to make leather)
Eastern (of the center) where they make leather, is Korea.

Radicals are shown here that are similar either in appearance or meaning.




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