What 巍 means
High, lofty, or majestically towering. It describes a mountain, building, or imposing presence, usually inside literary compounds: 巍巍 adds grandeur through repetition, 巍峨 means towering, and 巍然 marks an imposing stance. Copy it from the palette above.
Early dictionaries define 巍 as high and describe it as 嵬 combined with 委 for sound. In Warring States bronze and manuscript writing it could stand for the state or surname now written 魏; losing 山 left 魏, while 巍 kept the lofty sense.
Who writes 巍
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Don't confuse it with
1巍 vs 魏 Not interchangeable today: 巍 is lofty; 魏 is the state or surname character.
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2Questions people ask
1Why does 巍 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 巍
- Search it as
- 巍 · wei · wéi · 巍字 · 巍巍 · 巍峨 · 巍然 · 魏
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
巍\5DCDwei in a Chinese IME and select 巍; its reading is wéi. Cangjie is UHVI.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.