Hanja Analyzer

衛 — wi

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
지킬 위
Romanization
wi
English
guard, protect, defend
Mandarin
wèi
Japanese on'yomi
エイ, エ, エツ
Japanese kun'yomi
まもり まもる
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 5
Newspaper frequency
#400 of 2,500
Strokes
15
Variant forms
Radical
(144, 9 residual)
Unicode
U+885B

Words written with 衛

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 衛

Japanese data from EDRDG KANJIDIC2 and JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Other hanja read “위”

Other hanja with radical 行