韦 | wéi | soft leather; surname Wei |
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 |