Character | Composition | Variants | Reading | Meaning | Hanyu | Kangxi | Cihai |
為 | 火+5 | 爲 为 | wéi ㄨㄟˊ | Create, make. / Build, construct. / Do. / Plant, grow. / Govern. / Research, study. / Serve as. / Change into, become. / As, in the role of. / Count as, be considered as. / Called, named. / Expresses judgement: is. / Make, cause (to). / Have. / Take part in. / Write, author. / Connective: if. / Particle used in the middle of a sentence to move forward the object. / Modal particle used at the end of a sentence to express a rhetorical question. | v3,p2198#11 | p.669#10 | p.844r4c03 |
| | | wèi ㄨㄟˋ | Help, assist. / Preposition: for, on behalf of. / Preposition: by (passive). / Preposition: because of, due to. / Preposition: with, together with. / Connective: because. / Say. / False, fake. | | | |
父 | 父+0 | | fù fǔ ㄈㄨˋ ㄈㄨˇ | father; KangXi radical 88 | v3,p2039#01 | p.690#01 | p.864r1c01 |
母 | 毋+1 | | mǔ mú wǔ wú ㄇㄨˇ ㄇㄨˊ ㄨˇ ㄨˊ | mother; female elders; female | v4,p2380#03 | p.588#25 | p.745r1c03 |
妻 | 女+5 | 𡜌 𡜈 | qī qì ㄑㄧ ㄑㄧˋ | wife | v2,p1036#02 | p.257#30 | p.380r6c01 |
長子 | 長+0 子+0 | 镸 𨱗 𠤐 𠑷 𠔊 𠑻 𠑿 𡕣 长 㜽 𢀈 𢀉 𡐫 𣕓 只 | zhǎng zǐ ㄓㄤˇ ㄗˇ | 年紀最大的兒子。 Eldest son. | v6,p4050#01 v2,p1006#06 | p.1328#07 p.277#01 | p.1399r3c04 p.395r1c01 |
禫 | 示+12 | | tǎn dàn ㄊㄢˇ ㄉㄢˋ | sacrifice offered at the end of the three years' mourning the death of a parent | v4,p2408#09 | p.846#37 | p.985r1c01 |