Wèi

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Wèi is the pinyin romanization of the name of the ancient Chinese State of Wei, a major political power during the Warring States period.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese exonym
historical state name
associatedDynastyOrEra Zhou dynasty period
correspondsToWadeGiles Wei⁴
countryContext China NERFINISHED
denotes a major political power during the Warring States period
hasDiacritic acute accent on e
hasFinalVowel /ei/
hasInitialConsonant /w/
historicalRegion North China NERFINISHED
language Mandarin Chinese NERFINISHED
orthographicVariant Wei (without tone mark)
refersTo State of Wei (Warring States) NERFINISHED
romanizationOf
romanizationSystem Hanyu Pinyin NERFINISHED
scriptOfOrigin Chinese characters
timePeriodReferred Warring States period NERFINISHED
tone fourth tone
transliterationType phonetic romanization
usedFor ancient Chinese state name
usedIn historical studies of ancient China
modern sinology literature
writingDirection left-to-right (romanization)
writingSystem Latin alphabet

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state of Wei pinyinName Wèi
subject surface form: State of Wei