尉 wèi

1. wèi noun commandant; military officer; lieutenant
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: This term may be used in a generic way by itself or as a character in specific military titles, such as 校尉 Commandant (Guoyu '尉' n 2; Hucker 1985, p. 564; Kroll 2015 '尉' 2 ,p. 475; Unihan '尉'; XHZD '尉', p. 786)
2. yù bound form yu
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the two character surname 尉迟 (Kroll 2015 '尉' yù ,p. 475; XHZD '尉' yù, p. 922)
3. wèi noun a prison director; police commander
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '尉' n 1)
4. wèi verb to pacify
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 安抚 (Guoyu '尉' v; Kroll 2015 '尉' 1 ,p. 474)
5. wèi verb to comfort
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '尉' 1a ,p. 474)

Contained in

• 校尉 commandant; a military officer
• 大尉 captain (army rank); senior captain
• 上尉 captain
• 陆军中尉(陸軍中尉) lieutenant
• 尉迟(尉遲) Yuchi
• 少尉 second lieutenant
• 太尉 Taiwei; Grand Marshal; Defender-in-Chief ; commander
• 卫尉(衛尉) Commander of Palace Guards
• 中尉 Commandant-in-ordinary; lieutenant (navy); first lieutenant (army); subaltern

Also contained in

尉氏 、 廷尉 、 都尉 、 尉迟恭 、 骑都尉 、 尉犁 、 水衡都尉 、 县尉 、 桓太尉 、 尉氏县 、 长乐卫尉 、 尉缭子 、 尉犁县 、 步兵校尉 、 尉缭 、 南夷校尉 、 驸马都尉

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• 卷七十五上　　　表第十五上　宰相世系五上 Volume 75a Tables 21: Chancellors Genealogy 5a New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 97
• 卷七十二上　　　表第十二上　宰相世系二上 Volume 72a Tables 14: Chancellors Genealogy 2a New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 94
• 卷一百六十九 志第一百二十二 職官九 Volume 169 Treatises 122: Offical Posts 9 History of Song 宋史 — count: 59
• 卷七十三下　　　表第十三下　宰相世系三下 Volume 73b Tables 18: Chancellors Genealogy 3b New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 40
• 卷七十上　　　　表第十上　　宗室世系上 Volume 70a Tables 10: The Imperial Family Genealogy 1 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 39
• 卷七十三上　　　表第十三上　宰相世系三上 Volume 73a Tables 17: Chancellors Genealogy 3a New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 38
• 卷四十二 志第二十二: 職官一 Volume 42 Treatises 22: Government Service 1 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 32
• 卷28　志第23 百官下 Volume 28 Treatises 23: Government Offices 3 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 30
• 卷七十一上　　　表第十一上　宰相世系一上 Volume 71a Tables 12: Chancellors Genealogy 1a New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 29
• 卷七十下　　　　表第十下　　宗室世系下 Volume 70b Tables 11: The Imperial Family Genealogy 2 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 29

Collocations

• 尉佗 (尉佗) 尉佗平南越 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷十二 奉使 Chapter 12: Receiving and Implementing Orders — count: 17
• 尉史 (尉史) 以圉尉史捕淮陽反者公孫勇等侯 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《建元以來侯者年表》 Yearly Table of the Officials who became Marquises since the Jianyuan Period — count: 11
• 守尉 (守尉) 不因此時案郡縣守尉有罪者誅之 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《秦始皇本紀》 Annals of Qin Shi Huang — count: 8
• 里尉 (裡尉) 筦藏于里尉 — Guanzi 管子, 立政第四 Chapter 4: Establishing Governance — count: 7
• 郡尉 (郡尉) 攻破東郡尉及王離軍於成武南 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《秦楚之際月表》 Monthly Table of (the Events) between Qin and Chu — count: 6
• 尉止 (尉止) 初子駟與尉止有爭 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 6
• 使尉 (使尉) 乃使尉屠睢發卒五十萬 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十八　人間訓 Chapter 18: The Human World — count: 6
• 两尉 (兩尉) 并殺兩尉 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《陳涉世家》 House of Chen She — count: 5
• 汉中尉 (漢中尉) 為漢中尉 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《高祖功臣侯者年表》 Yearly Table of the Officials who became Marquises in the Time of Gaozu — count: 5
• 门尉 (門尉) 門尉晝三閱之 — Mozi 墨子, 卷十五 號令 Book 15 - Commands and Orders — count: 5