I CHING LEXICON wei2 R#:87 R: Strokes:8,12,0,9 Wade/Giles:wei2 Freq:23 (borr.) make; to do; govern; to be; for; in order to. yi3wei2 to be Legge: (1) To do, to make. To be in charge of, to administer, to govern. he2wei2 =why. (2) To be. At the beginning of clauses, it may often be translated by who is. (3) Before nouns of relation, and others, it = to play, to show one's self to be. (4) yi3wei2, with or without intermediate words. To take to be = to regard as, to consider, to have to be; to use to make. Sometimes is found alone, without the . : notes two forms; standard form with stroke count 8,12; abbrev. form has 9 strokes with no strokes counted for a radical. Wilder: #83, The seal character represents a mother monkey, sitting with one hand at its head and the other at the bottom of the character mixed up with its tail and feet. In the middle is the character for man ren2 because of the monkey's likeness to a man, and the primitive character for breasts to show that it is a mother. The Shuo Wen says that of all animals (literally "birds") the female monkey is most likely to claw and therefore the character zhao3 stands as its symbol [radical]. The character has lost its primitive meaning, and now is borrowed for to be, because, etc. Wieger: #49H, to be, for, in order to. H1 image, all nines, tian1 de2 bu4 ke3 wei2 shou3 ye3 Blofeld: (no translation) Legge: "the attribute of heaven (thereby denoted) should not (always) take the foremost place." Wilhelm: "It is the nature of heaven not to appear as head." H1 H1 Image H1 L4 WY H1 L6 WY H1 L6 WY H1 L6 WY H2 H2 WY H4 L6 H10 L3

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