Wey (state)
Wei (;"Wei" ''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''. ; Old Chinese: ''*ɢʷat-s''), commonly spelled Wey to distingui ...
(衛, 1040–209 BC), Wei in pinyin, but spelled Wey to distinguish from the bigger Wei of the Warring States
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Wei (state)
Wei (; ; Old Chinese: *') was one of the seven major states during the Warring States period of ancient China. It was created from the three-way Partition of Jin, together with Han and Zhao. Its territory lay between the states of Qin and Qi ...
(魏, 403–225 BC), one of the seven major states of the Warring States period
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(曹魏, 220–265), ruled North China during the Three Kingdoms Period
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Ran Wei
Wei ( zh, 魏; 350–352), known as Ran Wei () in Chinese historiography, was a short-lived state established by Ran Min. In 350, Ran Wei usurped the Later Zhao state in the city of Ye and declared himself emperor of Wei. In 352, Ran Wei was def ...
(冉魏, 350–352), short-lived Sixteen Kingdoms period state
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Northern Wei
Wei (), known in historiography as the Northern Wei (), Tuoba Wei (), Yuan Wei () and Later Wei (), was founded by the Tuoba (Tabgach) clan of the Xianbei. The first of the Northern and Southern dynasties#Northern dynasties, Northern dynasties ...
(北魏, 386–535), ruled North China during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, later split into:
:* Western Wei (西魏, 535–557)
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Eastern Wei
Wei (), known in historiography as the Eastern Wei (), was an imperial dynasty of China that followed the disintegration of the Northern Wei dynasty. One of the Northern dynasties during the Northern and Southern dynasties period, the Eastern Wei ...
(東魏, 534–550)
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Wei (Dingling)
Wei (), known in historiography as Zhai Wei (), was a dynastic state of China ruled by the Dingling people that existed from 388 to 392, during the Sixteen Kingdoms period of Chinese history. Its founder Zhai Liao had previously been vacillating ...
(魏, 388–392), state of Dingling/Gaoche ethnicity in China
Wei County, Xingtai
Wei County or Weixian () is a county in the south of Hebei province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Xingtai, with a population of 540,000 residing in an area of . It is served by G45 Daqing–Guangzhou Express ...
(威县), Hebei, China
People
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Wei (given name) Wei is a Chinese given name. The form 伟 (wěi in pinyin) is the most common Chinese given name, accounting for approximately 0.5% of Chinese people.
Possible writings
Wei can be written using different Chinese characters and can mean:
As a masc ...
, different variations of Chinese given names
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Wei (surname)
Wei or WEI may refer to:
States
* Wey (state) (衛, 1040–209 BC), Wei in pinyin, but spelled Wey to distinguish from the bigger Wei of the Warring States
* Wei (state) (魏, 403–225 BC), one of the seven major states of the Warring States per ...
* Wei (rank), a company-grade officer in Chinese armed forces.
* Wei (value token), a subunit of the Ether value token on the Ethereum blockchain
*Wei, a star otherwise known as
Epsilon Scorpii
Epsilon Scorpii (ε Scorpii, abbreviated Eps Sco, ε Sco), formally named Larawag , is a star in the southern zodiac constellation of Scorpius. It has an apparent visual magnitude of +2.3, making it the fifth-brightest member of the conste ...
*Wei Empire, a fictional state and planetary romance of Yulia Latynina, consisting of 5 novels and 2 short stories
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Wau Ecology Institute
The Wau Ecology Institute (WEI) was established in 1961 near the town of Wau, Papua New Guinea, in Morobe province, as a field station of the Bishop Museum. In 1973 it became an independent environmental organisation. It has laboratory space fo ...
* Windows Experience Index (WEI) score, a measure of the user-perceived performance of a computer running Microsoft Windows
*WEI, IATA airport code for Weipa Airport, Weipa, Queensland, Australia
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WEi
Wei or WEI may refer to:
States
* Wey (state) (衛, 1040–209 BC), Wei in pinyin, but spelled Wey to distinguish from the bigger Wei of the Warring States
* Wei (state) (魏, 403–225 BC), one of the seven major states of the Warring States per ...
Wey (disambiguation)
Wey may refer to:
Places
*Wey (state) (衞), or Wei, ancient Chinese state during the Zhou Dynasty
*River Wey, river in Surrey, Hampshire and West Sussex, England
*River Wey (Dorset), river of Dorset, south west England
*Wey and Arun Canal, canal ...
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Whey (disambiguation)
Whey is a dairy manufacturing byproduct.
Whey may also refer to:
* Whey (unit), a unit of weight for butter and cheese
* WHEY, a radio station in Michigan, United States
See also
* Curds and whey (disambiguation)
* Way (disambiguation)
* Wei (dis ...