Wéi dé
Wade (name)
Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-1895), sinologist 威妥瑪|威妥玛[Wei1 Tuo3 ma3]
Méi dé wéi jié fū
Medvedyev (name)
Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (1965-), Russian lawyer and politician, President of Russian Federation from 2008
Wéi bó
Webb (English name)
Weber
ā xī luò wéi
aciclovir (also spelled acyclovir), antiviral drug
Lǚ Bù wéi
Lü Buwei (?291-235 BC), merchant and politician of the State of Qin 秦國|秦国[Qín Gúo], subsequent Qin Dynasty 秦代[Qín Dài] Chancellor, allegedly the father of Ying Zhen 嬴政[Yíng Zhèng], who subsequently became the first emperor Qin Shihuang 秦始皇[Qín Shǐ huáng]
Mài kè sī wéi
Maxwell (name)
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Scottish physicist and mathematician, the originator of Maxwell's laws of electromagnetism and electromagnetic waves
Wéi Yìng wù
Wei Yinwu (737-792), Tang dynasty poet
Wéi dá
François Viète (1540-1603), French mathematician, father of modern algebraic notation
Wéi lì
Waley or Whaley (name)
Arthur Waley (1889-1966), pioneer British sinologist
Wéi wǎ dì
Vivaldi (name)
Antonio Vivaldi (1675-1741), Italian composer
Wéi tuó Pú sà
Skanda, the general or guardian Bodhisattva
Wéi gé nà
Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), German meteorologist and geophysicist, the originator of the theory of continental drift
also written 魏格納|魏格纳
Jī lā wéi è
Kilauea, Hawaii, the world's most active volcano
Rè ěr wéi
Gervais (name)
Paul Gervais (1816-1879), French geologist
bù yī wéi dài
in hemp cloth and with a leather belt
poorly dressed
Sài wéi lǐ nuò
(Jean-Michel) Severino, CEO of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
Wéi Mù tíng
Clarence Martin Wilbur (1908-1997), US Sinologist and Professor of Columbia University
Méi lǐ yà mǔ · Wéi bó sī tè
Merriam-Webster (dictionary)
Wéi shì pīn fǎ
Wade-Giles system (romanization of Chinese)
Wéi ěr fú léi zī
(George) Wehrfritz (Beijing bureau chief of Newsweek)
Lǚ Bù wéi
Lü Buwei (?291-235 BC), merchant and politician of the State of Qin 秦國|秦国[Qin2 guo2], subsequent Qin Dynasty 秦代[Qin2 dai4] Chancellor, allegedly the father of Ying Zheng 嬴政[Ying2 Zheng4], who subsequently became the first emperor Qin Shihuang 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2]
Sài wéi lǐ nuò
(Jean-Michel) Severino, CEO of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
Méi lǐ yà mǔ · Wéi bó sī tè
Merriam-Webster (dictionary)
Mò hā wéi Shā mò
Mojave Desert, southwestern USA
Wéi shì wēng yīng
(bird species of China) Whistler's warbler (Seicercus whistleri)
wéi biān sān jué
lit. the leather binding (of the bamboo scroll) has broken three times
fig. to study diligently
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