尾 wěi

1. wěi noun tail
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 尾巴 (CC-CEDICT '尾'; Kroll 2015 '尾' 1, p. 473; Unihan '尾'; XHZD '尾' 1, p. 783)
2. wěi measure word measure word for fish
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '尾'; Guoyu '尾' n 1; Guoyu '尾' n 2; Kroll 2015 '尾' 4, p. 473; XHZD '尾' 4, p. 783)
3. wěi noun extremity; end; stern
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '尾'; Guoyu '尾' n 3; Kroll 2015 '尾' 1a, p. 473; Unihan '尾'; XHZD '尾' 2, p. 783)
4. wěi verb to follow
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '尾' v 1; XHZD '尾' 3, p. 783)
5. wěi proper noun Wei constellation
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Sixth of the 28 constellations (CC-CEDICT '尾'; Kroll 2015 '尾' 3, p. 473; XHZD '尾' 5, p. 783)
6. wěi noun last
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '尾' 1b, p. 473)
7. wěi noun lower reach [of a river]
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '尾' 1c, p. 473)
8. wěi verb to mate [of animals]
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '尾' v 2; Kroll 2015 '尾' 2, p. 473)
9. wěi noun a mistake in verse where 5th and 10th syllables have the same tone
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '尾' 5, p. 473)
10. wěi adjective remaining
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '尾'; Guoyu '尾' adj 2)

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• 垂直尾翼 (aviation) tailfin; vertical stabilizer
• 尾大不掉 large tail obstructs action; bottom heavy; rendered ineffective by subordinates
• 灰卷尾 ashy drongo (Dicrurus leucophaeus)
• 尾矿库(尾礦庫) slag heap; dump of mining waste
• 白尾蓝仙鹟(白尾藍仙鶲) white-tailed flycatcher (Cyornis concretus)
• 船尾座 Puppis
• 孳尾 [of animals] to breed
• 鱼尾板(魚尾板) fishplate (in railway engineering)
• 有头有尾(有頭有尾) where there's a start, there's a finish; to finish once one starts something; to carry things through
• 尾数(尾數) last digit; remainder (after rounding a number) ; mantissa ; small change ; balance of an account ; decimal part
• 短尾鸦雀(短尾鴉雀) short-tailed parrotbill (Neosuthora davidiana)
• 急性阑尾炎(急性闌尾炎) acute appendicitis
• 麈尾 an elk tail; an elk tail whisk
• 淡尾鹟莺(淡尾鶲鶯) Alström's warbler (Seicercus soror)
• 黑叉尾海燕 Swinhoe's storm petrel (Oceanodroma monorhis)
• 燕尾蝶 swallow tail butterfly (family Papilionidae)
• 队尾(隊尾) back of the line; last one in line
• 闾尾(閭尾) coccyx
• 尾端 rear end
• 白斑尾柳莺(白斑尾柳鶯) Kloss's leaf warbler (Phylloscopus ogilviegranti)
• 收尾 to wind up; to bring to an end; to finish
• 有头无尾(有頭無尾) to start but not finish
• 尖尾滨鹬(尖尾濱鷸) sharp-tailed sandpiper (Calidris acuminata)
• 曳尾鹱(曳尾鸌) wedge-tailed shearwater (Puffinus pacificus)
• 云南白斑尾柳莺(雲南白斑尾柳鶯) Davison's leaf warbler (Phylloscopus davisoni)
• 白头硬尾鸭(白頭硬尾鴨) white-headed duck (Oxyura leucocephala)
• 黑眉长尾山雀(黑眉長尾山雀) black-browed bushtit (Aegithalos bonvaloti)
• 红尾鸫(紅尾鶇) Naumann's thrush (Turdus naumanni)
• 银脸长尾山雀(銀臉長尾山雀) sooty bushtit (Aegithalos fuliginosus)
• 首尾相接 to join head to tail; bumper-to-bumper (of traffic jam)
• 翘尾(翹尾) to be cocky
• 长尾朱雀(長尾朱雀) long-tailed rosefinch (Carpodacus sibiricus)
• 尾声(尾聲) coda; epilogue; end
• 凤尾鱼(鳳尾魚) anchovy
• 短尾贼鸥(短尾賊鷗) parasitic jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus)
• 棕额长尾山雀(棕額長尾山雀) rufous-fronted bushtit (Aegithalos iouschistos)
• 白腰叉尾海燕 Leach's storm petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa)
• 黑背燕尾 black-backed forktail (Enicurus immaculatus)
• 原尾目 a Protura; a conehead
• 夹尾巴(夾尾巴) to have one's tail between one's legs
• 鸟尾蛤(鳥尾蛤) cockle (mollusk of the family Cardiidae)
• 掐头去尾(掐頭去尾) to remove the head and the tail
• 无尾猿(無尾猿) ape

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• 卷五十九 志第十二 天文十二 Volume 59 Treatises 12: Astronomy 12 History of Song 宋史 — count: 340
• 卷五十八 志第十一 天文十一 Volume 58 Treatises 11: Astronomy 11 History of Song 宋史 — count: 285
• 卷五十七 志第十 天文十 Volume 57 Treatises 10: Astronomy 10 History of Song 宋史 — count: 155
• 卷六十 志第十三 天文十三 Volume 60 Treatises 13: Astronomy 13 History of Song 宋史 — count: 117
• 卷六十四 志第十七 五行二下 Volume 64 Treatises 17: Five Elements 2b History of Song 宋史 — count: 115
• 卷三十二　　　　志第二十二　　天文二 Volume 32 Treatises 26: Astronomy 2 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 26
• 卷三十六 志第十六: 天文下 Volume 36 Treatises 16: Astronomy 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 24
• 卷五十六 志第九 天文九 Volume 56 Treatises 9: Astronomy 9 History of Song 宋史 — count: 23
• 卷十三 志第五 天文下 Volume 13 Treatises 5: Astronomy 1 Book of Southern Qi 南齊書 — count: 23
• 卷二十七 志第三 天文三 Volume 27 Treatises 3: Astronomy 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 22

Collocations

• 子尾 (子尾) 子尾 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 14
• 在尾 (在尾) 日在尾 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 9
• 牛尾 (牛尾) 牛尾 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷十八 辨物 Chapter 18: Distinguishes Things — count: 4
• 龙尾 (龍尾) 龍尾伏辰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 3
• 鹑尾 (鶉尾) 鶉尾 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷二十一 律曆志 Volume 21: Treatise on Rhythm and the Calendar — count: 3
• 掉尾 (掉尾) 龍乃弭耳掉尾而逃 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷七　精神訓 Chapter 7: Spirit — count: 3
• 尾中 (尾中) 旦尾中 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — count: 3
• 尾伏 (尾伏) 龍尾伏辰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 3
• 骥尾 (驥尾) 附驥尾而行益顯 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《列傳‧伯夷列傳》 Biographies - Biography of Bo Yi — count: 2
• 尾九 (尾九) 終於尾九度 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷二十一 律曆志 Volume 21: Treatise on Rhythm and the Calendar — count: 2