韋

tanned leather radical (no. 178)

10 strokes.

Readings

• イ (on reading): 室韋 (しつい) Shiwei (Mongolic tribe); 韋駄天 (いだてん) Skanda (swift-footed guardian deity)
• そむく (kun reading)

Components

• 口
• 口 radical mouth
• 韋 radical tanned leather

Kanji containing 韋

• 違 difference
• 衛 defense
• 韓 Korea
• 緯 horizontal
• 偉 admirable
• 葦 reed
• 圍 enclose
• 幃 bag
• 衞 defense
• 諱 posthumous (real) name
• 韜 bag

Words using 韋

• 室韋 (しつい) Shiwei (Mongolic tribe)
• 韋駄天 (いだてん) Skanda (swift-footed guardian deity)
• 韋陀天 (いだてん) Wei-To (temple guardian sometimes confused with Vajrapani)
• 韋編 (いへん) leather cord
• 韋編三絶 (いへんさんぜつ) repeated reading

6 words in all.

Jinuma: Japanese Dictionary · Word lists