韦 | wéi | soft leather; surname Wei |
津巴布韦 | Jīn bā bù wéi | Zimbabwe |
麦克斯韦 | Mài kè sī wéi | Maxwell (name); James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Scottish physicist and mathematician, the originator of Maxwell's laws of electromagnetism and electromagnetic waves |
吕不韦 | Lǚ Bù wéi | Lü Buwei (?291-235 BC), merchant and politician of the State of Qin 秦国, subsequent Qin Dynasty 秦代 Chancellor, allegedly the father of Ying Zhen 嬴政, who subsequently became the first emperor Qin Shihuang 秦始皇 |
基拉韦厄 | Jī lā wéi è | Kilauea, Hawaii, the world's most active volcano |
塞韦里诺 | Sài wéi lǐ nuò | (Jean-Michel) Severino, CEO of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) |
布衣韦带 | bù yī wéi dài | in hemp cloth and with a leather belt; poorly dressed |
查韦斯 | Chá wéi sī | Chavez, Spanish name |
梅德韦杰夫 | Méi dé wéi jié fū | Medvedyev (name); Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (1965-), Russian lawyer and politician, President of Russian Federation from 2008 |
梅里亚姆・韦伯斯 特 | Méi lǐ yà mǔ · Wéi bó sī tè | Merriam-Webster (dictionary) |
热尔韦 | Rè ěr wéi | Gervais (name); Paul Gervais (1816-1879), French geologist |
莫哈韦沙漠 | Mò hā wéi shā mò | Mojave Desert |
阿昔洛韦 | ā xī luò wéi | aciclovir (also spelled acyclovir), antiviral drug |
韦伯 | Wéi bó | Webb (English name); Weber |
韦利 | Wéi lì | Waley or Whaley (name); Arthur Waley (1889-1966), pioneer British sinologist |
韦德 | Wéi dé | Wade (name); Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-1895), sinologist 威妥玛 |
韦慕庭 | Wéi Mù tíng | Clarence Martin Wilbur (1908-1997), US Sinologist and Professor of Columbia University |
韦应物 | Wéi Yìng wù | Wei Yinwu (737-792), Tang dynasty poet |
韦斯卡 | Wéi sī kǎ | Uesca or Huesca, Spain |
韦格纳 | Wéi gé nà | Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), German meteorologist and geophysicist, the originator of the theory of continental drift; also written 魏格纳 |
韦氏拼法 | Wéi shì pīn fǎ | Wade-Giles system (romanization of Chinese) |
韦尔弗雷兹 | Wéi ěr fú léi zī | (George) Wehrfritz (Beijing bureau chief of Newsweek) |
韦尔瓦 | Wéi ěr wǎ | Huelva, Spain |
韦瓦第 | Wéi wǎ dì | Vivaldi (name); Antonio Vivaldi (1675-1741), Italian composer |
韦科 | Wéi kē | Waco |
韦达 | Wéi dá | François Viète (1540-1603), French mathematician who introduced notation of algebra |
韦驮菩萨 | Wéi tuó Pú sà | Skanda, the general or guardian Bodhisattva |