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Ngwei

Ngwei is the alternative form of Wei.

Meaning of Wei

Proper noun (1)

Wei

  1. A county of Handan, Hebei, China.
  2. (historical) An ancient Chinese march during the Zhou dynasty
    • TO ASSAULT a strong and cohesive enemy head-on is to invite disaster. The stratagem of besieging the kingdom of Wei to save the kingdom of Zhao advocates indirect confrontation.1991, Gao Yuan, “Stratagem 2: Besiege the kingdom of Wei to save the kingdom of Zhao”, in Lure the Tiger out of the Mountains: The Thirty-six Stratagems of Ancient China, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN...
  3. (historical) Liang, the realm of the earlier march after its elevation to a kingdom
  4. (historical) A kingdom during the Three Kingdoms interregnum following China's Han dynasty.
    • After the Empire of Han was taken over by Wei (220) in the fifth year of the Ch’ing-lung period (237), the statue was moved from Ch’ang-an, the capital of Han, to Hsü-ch’ang, the capital of Wei, in modern Honan province.1979, Kuo-ch'ing Tu, edited by William Schultz, Li Ho, Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 59
    Synonyms:
    Liang

Proper noun (2)

Wei

  1. (historical) An ancient Chinese duchy during the Zhou dynasty

Proper noun (3)

Wei

  1. A river in China, a tributary of the Yellow River.
    Synonyms:
    Wei River

Questions about Ngwei

What is Ngwei the alternative form of?
Ngwei is the alternative form of Wei.

Words near Ngwei in the dictionary

  1. Nguys
  2. Ngwa
  3. Ngwato
  4. ngwee
  5. ngwees
  6. Ngwei
  7. Ngã Bảy
  8. Ngäbe
  9. Ngô Quyền
  10. Ngāi
  11. Ngāti

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ngwei (page history and authors); Wei (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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