Kanji Detail for 韋 - "tanned leather, oppose"

韋

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning

韋 means "tanned leather, oppose."
1. Tanned leather - Processed hide.
2. Oppose - To go against; to disobey.
Four-character idioms with 韋
- 韋編三絶いへんさんぜつ repeated reading; close (careful) reading; careful perusal
Dictionary Citations

The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

tanned leather radical (no. 178)

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

tanned leather; surname; Kangxi radical 178

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

surname Wei

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

tanned leather; surname

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

Tanned leather. Refers to leather that has been processed to be soft and tough.
Onyomi

i(イ)
Kunyomi

somu.ku(そむ-く)
Strokes

9 strokes
Radical

韋 (nameshigawa)
Related Keywords

tanned leather oppose leather