韦
wéi · Wei
- Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
- No. 50
- Ancestral seat (junwang)
- 京兆
- Wikidata
- Q6665383
In other languages
- German Wei
- English Wei
- Japanese 韋
- Korean 웨이
- Vietnamese Vi
- Traditional Chinese 韋
Notable historical bearers
Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.
- Wei Yingwu737 – 792
Tang Dynasty Chinese poet
- Empress Wei664 – 710
wife of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang (664-710)
- Wei Zhuang836 – 910
Chinese poet (836-910)
- Wei Guoqing1913 – 1989
Chinese general and government official (1913–1989)
- Wei Changhui1823 – 1856
North King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
- Farong594 – 657
Chinese Buddhist teacher
- Wei Zhao204 – 273
Eastern Wu scholar, historian and official (204–273)
- Wei Xiaokuan509 – 580
general
- Wei Chueh1928 – 2016
Taiwanese Buddhist monk
- Wei Rui442 – 520
general of Liang dynasty
- Wei Chuhou773 – 828
Tang Dynasty Buddhist
- Wei Jiansu687 – 763
Tang Dynasty chancellor (687-763)
- Wei Baqun1894 – 1932
Zhuang peasant revolutionary
- Wei Zhaodu801 – 895
Tang Dynasty chancellor
- Wei Zhiyi701 – 800
Tang Dynasty chancellor
- Wei Gao745 – 805
Tang dynasty general and military governor
- Wei Kang101 – 213
Chinese official and politician (died 213)
- Huan Yanfan653 – 706
Chinese judge
- Wei Baoheng801 – 873
Tang Dynasty chancellor
- Wei Chengqing640 – 706
Tang Dynasty chancellor
- Empress Xianren1080 – 1159
Song dynasty person (CBDB = 22282)
- Wei Yuk Boshan1849 – 1921
Hong Kong businessman
- Wei Xiong502 – 578
Northern Zhou person CBDB = 31004
- Wei Shu? – 757
Tang dynasty person CBDB = 32085
Find printed genealogies
The Shanghai Library holds one of the largest collections of Chinese family genealogies (jiapu). Its genealogy platform lists each genealogy's title, ancestral place, founding ancestor, hall name and holding library. Search there by surname and your family's ancestral place.
Search 韦 genealogies at the Shanghai Library ↗Sources: the Hundred Family Surnames (public domain) with ancestral seats from the chinese-poetry dataset (MIT); spellings and people from Wikidata (CC0).