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:
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Western Wei
Wei (), known in historiography as the Western Wei (), was an imperial dynasty of China that followed the disintegration of the Northern Wei. One of the Northern dynasties during the era of the Northern and Southern dynasties, it ruled the weste ...
(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 Dynasties in Chinese history, dynastic state of China ruled by the Dingling people that existed from 388 to 392, during the Sixteen Kingdoms period of History of China, Chinese history. Its foun ...
(魏, 388–392), state of Dingling/Gaoche ethnicity in China
Places
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Wei River
The Wei River () is a major river in west-central China's Gansu and Shaanxi provinces. It is the largest tributary of the Yellow River and very important in the early development of Chinese civilization.
The source of the Wei River is close to ...
, a main tributary of the Yellow River
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Wei County, Handan
Wei County or Weixian () is a county in the south of Hebei province, China, bordering Henan province to the south. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Handan.
Administrative divisions
*Weicheng, Wei County, Handan, Weic ...
(魏县), Hebei, China
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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
* Wei (given name), 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 ...
, various Chinese surnames (魏, 衛, 尉, 蔿, 韋)
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Wei Wei (disambiguation) Wei Wei may refer to:
* Wei Wei (male writer) (1920–2008), Chinese writer
* Wei Wei (actress) (born 1922), Chinese actress
* Wei Wei (singer) (born 1963), Chinese female singer
* Wei Wei (female writer) (born 1970), Chinese writer
* Wei Wei (come ...
Other uses
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Wei (rank)
(; ) is the rank held by company-grade officers in some East Asian militaries. The ranks are used in both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan, and both North and South Korea.
Chinese variant People's Liberation Ar ...
, a company-grade officer in Chinese armed forces.
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Wei (value token)
Ethereum is a decentralized, open-source blockchain with smart contract functionality. Ether (Abbreviation: ETH; sign: Ξ) is the native cryptocurrency of the platform. Among cryptocurrencies, ether is second only to bitcoin in market capital ...
, 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 ...