"爲" meaning in All languages combined

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Character [Chinese]

Forms: For pronunciation and definitions of 爲 – see 為 . . [canonical], etc.” [romanization]
Etymology: Originally an Ideogrammic compound (會意/会意) : 又 (“hand”) + 象 (“elephant”). See 為 for the full etymology and historical forms. Etymology templates: {{m|zh|會意|tr=-}} 會意/会意, {{categorize|zh|Han ideogrammic compounds}}, {{liushu|ic|adj=|nocap=|pron=}} Ideogrammic compound (會意/会意), {{m|zh|又//||hand|tr=-}} 又 (“hand”), {{m|zh|象//||elephant|tr=-}} 象 (“elephant”), {{Han compound|又|象|ls=ic|t1=hand|t2=elephant}} Ideogrammic compound (會意/会意) : 又 (“hand”) + 象 (“elephant”), {{m|mul|為}} 為
  1. Tags: no-gloss

Character [Japanese]

Forms: [shinjitai]
  1. do, perform, carry out, sake Tags: Jinmeiyō, kanji, kyūjitai

Character [Korean]

Forms: 할 위 [eumhun]
Head templates: {{ko-hanja|하다|할|위}} 爲 (eumhun 할 위 (hal wi))
  1. Hanja form of 위 (“to do; act”). Tags: alt-of, hanja Alternative form of: (extra: to do; act)
    Sense id: en-爲-ko-character-G4BJso9W Categories (other): Korean entries with incorrect language header, Korean terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Derived forms: 爲國/위국, 爲始/위시, 爲政者, 위정자, 爲主/위주, 爲親契, 위친계, 刻燭爲詩, 각촉위시, 當爲/당위, 伐齊爲名, 벌제위명, 無爲徒食, 무위도식, 無所不爲, 무소불위, 削髮爲僧, 삭발위승, 人爲/인위, 作爲/작위, 轉禍爲福, 전화위복, 行爲/행위, 이민위천 (iminwicheon) (alt: 以民爲天)

Verb [Middle Korean]

Forms: ho- [romanization]
Head templates: {{head|okm|verb|tr=ho-}} 爲 (ho-)
  1. Idu script spelling of ᄒᆞ (ho-, “to do”, also a light verb deriving verbs and adjectives)

Verb [Old Korean]

Head templates: {{head|oko|verb|tr=*HO(Y)-}} 爲 (*HO(Y)-)
  1. to do Synonyms: 爲只
    Sense id: en-爲-oko-verb-IXZV9I3e
  2. a light verb attached to various non-verbs to derive verbs and adjectives.
    Sense id: en-爲-oko-verb-c22sL8Lk Categories (other): Old Korean entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Old Korean entries with incorrect language header: 2 95 2
  3. (after a locative particle) to be at Synonyms: 有叱,
    Sense id: en-爲-oko-verb-~QPhxsvf

Character [Translingual]

  1. 爲 (Kangxi radical 87, 爪+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 月竹弓火 (BHNF), four-corner 2022₇ or 2032₇, composition ⿱爫⿵⿰丿⿳㇇㇇𠃌灬)

Character [Vietnamese]

Forms: 爲: Hán Việt readings: vị [canonical], vì 爲: Nôm readings: vay [canonical], [canonical], [canonical], voi [canonical], vơ [canonical], vờ [canonical], vi [canonical]
  1. Tags: no-gloss
    Sense id: en-爲-vi-character-47DEQpj8 Categories (other): Vietnamese Chữ Hán, Vietnamese Nom

Conjunction [Vietnamese]

Forms: [romanization]
Head templates: {{head|vi|conjunction|head=|tr=vì}} 爲 • (vì), {{vi-conj|vì|sc=Hani}} 爲 • (vì)
  1. chữ Hán form of vì (“because”).
    Sense id: en-爲-vi-conj-KMoOeDaj Categories (other): Vietnamese Chữ Hán, Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header, Vietnamese conjunctions in Han script Disambiguation of Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header: 0 46 40 14
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Preposition [Vietnamese]

Forms: vị [romanization]
Head templates: {{head|vi|preposition|head=|tr=vị}} 爲 • (vị), {{vi-prep|vị|sc=Hani}} 爲 • (vị)
  1. chữ Hán form of vị (“for”).
    Sense id: en-爲-vi-prep-BRJ0maYB Categories (other): Vietnamese Chữ Hán, Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header, Vietnamese prepositions, Vietnamese prepositions in Han script Disambiguation of Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header: 0 46 40 14
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb [Vietnamese]

Forms: vay [romanization]
Head templates: {{head|vi|verb|||head=|tr=vay}} 爲 • (vay), {{vi-verb|vay|sc=Hani}} 爲 • (vay)
  1. Nôm form of vay (“to borrow”).
    Sense id: en-爲-vi-verb-PIyuPraE Categories (other): Vietnamese Nom, Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header: 0 46 40 14
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for 爲 meaning in All languages combined (12.3kB)

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          "word": "無爲徒食"
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          "word": "무위도식"
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          "word": "無所不爲"
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          "ref": "c. 1200, Interpretive gugyeol glosses to the Avatamsaka Sutra, vol. 14, pages 8:20—9:01",
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          "text": "一切衆生^隱[於]生死^叱中",
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Vietnamese prepositions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Vietnamese prepositions in Han script",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "chữ Hán form of vị (“for”)."
      ],
      "id": "en-爲-vi-prep-BRJ0maYB",
      "links": [
        [
          "chữ Hán",
          "chữ Hán#Vietnamese"
        ],
        [
          "vị",
          "vị#Vietnamese"
        ],
        [
          "for",
          "for"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "爲"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "vì",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "conjunction",
        "head": "",
        "tr": "vì"
      },
      "expansion": "爲 • (vì)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vì",
        "sc": "Hani"
      },
      "expansion": "爲 • (vì)",
      "name": "vi-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Vietnamese",
  "lang_code": "vi",
  "pos": "conj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Vietnamese Chữ Hán",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 46 40 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Vietnamese conjunctions in Han script",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "chữ Hán form of vì (“because”)."
      ],
      "id": "en-爲-vi-conj-KMoOeDaj",
      "links": [
        [
          "chữ Hán",
          "chữ Hán#Vietnamese"
        ],
        [
          "vì",
          "vì#Vietnamese"
        ],
        [
          "because",
          "because"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "爲"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "vay",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "verb",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "head": "",
        "tr": "vay"
      },
      "expansion": "爲 • (vay)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vay",
        "sc": "Hani"
      },
      "expansion": "爲 • (vay)",
      "name": "vi-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Vietnamese",
  "lang_code": "vi",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Vietnamese Nom",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 46 40 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Nôm form of vay (“to borrow”)."
      ],
      "id": "en-爲-vi-verb-PIyuPraE",
      "links": [
        [
          "Nôm",
          "chữ Nôm#Vietnamese"
        ],
        [
          "vay",
          "vay#Vietnamese"
        ],
        [
          "borrow",
          "borrow"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "爲"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "會意",
        "tr": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "會意/会意",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "Han ideogrammic compounds"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "categorize"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ic",
        "adj": "",
        "nocap": "",
        "pron": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Ideogrammic compound (會意/会意)",
      "name": "liushu"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "又//",
        "3": "",
        "4": "hand",
        "tr": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "又 (“hand”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "象//",
        "3": "",
        "4": "elephant",
        "tr": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "象 (“elephant”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "又",
        "2": "象",
        "ls": "ic",
        "t1": "hand",
        "t2": "elephant"
      },
      "expansion": "Ideogrammic compound (會意/会意) : 又 (“hand”) + 象 (“elephant”)",
      "name": "Han compound"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mul",
        "2": "為"
      },
      "expansion": "為",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Originally an Ideogrammic compound (會意/会意) : 又 (“hand”) + 象 (“elephant”). See 為 for the full etymology and historical forms.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "For pronunciation and definitions of 爲 – see 為 . .",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "etc.”",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "character",
  "redirects": [
    "為"
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Beginning Mandarin",
        "Cantonese lemmas",
        "Cantonese verbs",
        "Chinese Han characters",
        "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Chinese lemmas",
        "Chinese links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Chinese variant forms",
        "Chinese verbs",
        "Eastern Min lemmas",
        "Eastern Min verbs",
        "Hakka lemmas",
        "Hakka verbs",
        "Han ideogrammic compounds",
        "Hokkien lemmas",
        "Hokkien verbs",
        "Mandarin lemmas",
        "Mandarin verbs",
        "Teochew lemmas",
        "Teochew verbs",
        "Wu lemmas",
        "Wu verbs"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "no-gloss"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "爲"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "為",
      "tags": [
        "shinjitai"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "character",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese Han characters",
        "Japanese kanji with goon reading い",
        "Japanese kanji with historical goon reading ゐ",
        "Japanese kanji with historical kan'on reading ゐ",
        "Japanese kanji with kan'on reading い",
        "Japanese kanji with kun reading す-る",
        "Japanese kanji with kun reading ため",
        "Japanese kanji with kun reading な-す",
        "Japanese kanji with kun reading な-る",
        "Japanese terms spelled with 爲",
        "Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
        "Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
        "Japanese terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Kanji used for names"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "do, perform, carry out, sake"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "do",
          "do"
        ],
        [
          "perform",
          "perform"
        ],
        [
          "carry out",
          "carry out"
        ],
        [
          "sake",
          "sake"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Jinmeiyō",
        "kanji",
        "kyūjitai"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "爲"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "爲國/위국"
    },
    {
      "word": "爲始/위시"
    },
    {
      "word": "爲政者"
    },
    {
      "word": "위정자"
    },
    {
      "word": "爲主/위주"
    },
    {
      "word": "爲親契"
    },
    {
      "word": "위친계"
    },
    {
      "word": "刻燭爲詩"
    },
    {
      "word": "각촉위시"
    },
    {
      "word": "當爲/당위"
    },
    {
      "word": "伐齊爲名"
    },
    {
      "word": "벌제위명"
    },
    {
      "word": "無爲徒食"
    },
    {
      "word": "무위도식"
    },
    {
      "word": "無所不爲"
    },
    {
      "word": "무소불위"
    },
    {
      "word": "削髮爲僧"
    },
    {
      "word": "삭발위승"
    },
    {
      "word": "人爲/인위"
    },
    {
      "word": "作爲/작위"
    },
    {
      "word": "轉禍爲福"
    },
    {
      "word": "전화위복"
    },
    {
      "word": "行爲/행위"
    },
    {
      "alt": "以民爲天",
      "roman": "iminwicheon",
      "word": "이민위천"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "할 위",
      "roman": "hal wi",
      "tags": [
        "eumhun"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "하다",
        "2": "할",
        "3": "위"
      },
      "expansion": "爲 (eumhun 할 위 (hal wi))",
      "name": "ko-hanja"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Korean",
  "lang_code": "ko",
  "pos": "character",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "to do; act",
          "word": "위"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "Korean Han characters",
        "Korean entries with incorrect language header",
        "Korean lemmas",
        "Korean terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Hanja form of 위 (“to do; act”)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Hanja",
          "hanja#English"
        ],
        [
          "위",
          "위#Korean"
        ],
        [
          "do",
          "do"
        ],
        [
          "act",
          "act"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "Hanja"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "hanja"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "爲"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ho-",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "okm",
        "2": "verb",
        "tr": "ho-"
      },
      "expansion": "爲 (ho-)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle Korean",
  "lang_code": "okm",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle Korean Idu script forms",
        "Middle Korean entries with incorrect language header",
        "Middle Korean lemmas",
        "Middle Korean terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
        "Middle Korean verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Idu script spelling of ᄒᆞ (ho-, “to do”, also a light verb deriving verbs and adjectives)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ᄒᆞ",
          "ᄒᆞ다#Middle Korean"
        ],
        [
          "light verb",
          "light verb"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "爲"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Old Korean entries with incorrect language header",
    "Old Korean lemmas",
    "Old Korean verbs"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "okm",
            "2": "ᄒᆞ다〮",
            "t": "to do; light verb",
            "tr": "hò-tá"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle Korean: ᄒᆞ다〮 (hò-tá, “to do; light verb”)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle Korean: ᄒᆞ다〮 (hò-tá, “to do; light verb”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "jje",
            "2": "ᄒᆞ다",
            "t": "to do; light verb"
          },
          "expansion": "Jeju: ᄒᆞ다 (hawda, “to do; light verb”)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Jeju: ᄒᆞ다 (hawda, “to do; light verb”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ko",
            "2": "하다",
            "t": "to do; light verb"
          },
          "expansion": "Korean: 하다 (hada, “to do; light verb”)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Korean: 하다 (hada, “to do; light verb”)"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "oko",
        "2": "verb",
        "tr": "*HO(Y)-"
      },
      "expansion": "爲 (*HO(Y)-)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old Korean",
  "lang_code": "oko",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to do"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "do",
          "do"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "爲只"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a light verb attached to various non-verbs to derive verbs and adjectives."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "light verb",
          "light verb#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old Korean terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "As all the sentient beings are in the midst of life and death\n(N.B. Gugyeol glyphs are given in non-abbreviated forms. Bracketed characters were ignored when read.)",
          "ref": "c. 1200, Interpretive gugyeol glosses to the Avatamsaka Sutra, vol. 14, pages 8:20—9:01",
          "roman": "IL.CHYEY CWUNG.SOYNG-un CWUKSALI-s TYUNG-akuy HOY-a",
          "text": "一切衆生^隱[於]生死^叱中",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "As it is in front of me\n(N.B. Gugyeol glyphs are given in non-abbreviated forms. Bracketed characters were ignored when read.)",
          "ref": "c. 1250, Interpretive gugyeol glosses to the Humane King Sutra, page 11:22",
          "roman": "NA-uy ALPH-akuy HOY-a",
          "text": "[於]我^衣前",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be at"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "be",
          "be"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(after a locative particle) to be at"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "after a locative particle"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "有叱"
        },
        {
          "word": "在"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "爲"
}

{
  "lang": "Translingual",
  "lang_code": "mul",
  "pos": "character",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Han char with multiple four",
        "Han script characters",
        "Translingual entries with incorrect language header",
        "Translingual lemmas",
        "Translingual symbols",
        "Translingual terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "Translingual terms with redundant script codes"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "爲 (Kangxi radical 87, 爪+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 月竹弓火 (BHNF), four-corner 2022₇ or 2032₇, composition ⿱爫⿵⿰丿⿳㇇㇇𠃌灬)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Kangxi radical",
          "Kangxi radical"
        ],
        [
          "爫",
          "爫#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "丿",
          "丿#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "㇇",
          "㇇#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "𠃌",
          "𠃌#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "灬",
          "灬#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "han"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "爲"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Vietnamese Chữ Hán",
    "Vietnamese Han characters",
    "Vietnamese Nom",
    "Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Vietnamese lemmas",
    "Vietnamese verbs",
    "Vietnamese verbs in Han script"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "爲: Hán Việt readings: vị",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vì 爲: Nôm readings: vay",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ví",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vĩ",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "voi",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vơ",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vờ",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vi",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Vietnamese",
  "lang_code": "vi",
  "pos": "character",
  "senses": [
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "han"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "no-gloss"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "爲"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Vietnamese lemmas",
    "Vietnamese prepositions",
    "Vietnamese prepositions in Han script",
    "Vietnamese verbs",
    "Vietnamese verbs in Han script"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "vị",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "preposition",
        "head": "",
        "tr": "vị"
      },
      "expansion": "爲 • (vị)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vị",
        "sc": "Hani"
      },
      "expansion": "爲 • (vị)",
      "name": "vi-prep"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Vietnamese",
  "lang_code": "vi",
  "pos": "prep",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Vietnamese Chữ Hán"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "chữ Hán form of vị (“for”)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "chữ Hán",
          "chữ Hán#Vietnamese"
        ],
        [
          "vị",
          "vị#Vietnamese"
        ],
        [
          "for",
          "for"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "爲"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Vietnamese conjunctions",
    "Vietnamese conjunctions in Han script",
    "Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Vietnamese lemmas",
    "Vietnamese verbs",
    "Vietnamese verbs in Han script"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "vì",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "conjunction",
        "head": "",
        "tr": "vì"
      },
      "expansion": "爲 • (vì)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vì",
        "sc": "Hani"
      },
      "expansion": "爲 • (vì)",
      "name": "vi-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Vietnamese",
  "lang_code": "vi",
  "pos": "conj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Vietnamese Chữ Hán"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "chữ Hán form of vì (“because”)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "chữ Hán",
          "chữ Hán#Vietnamese"
        ],
        [
          "vì",
          "vì#Vietnamese"
        ],
        [
          "because",
          "because"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "爲"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Vietnamese lemmas",
    "Vietnamese verbs",
    "Vietnamese verbs in Han script"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "vay",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vi",
        "2": "verb",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "head": "",
        "tr": "vay"
      },
      "expansion": "爲 • (vay)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "vay",
        "sc": "Hani"
      },
      "expansion": "爲 • (vay)",
      "name": "vi-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Vietnamese",
  "lang_code": "vi",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Vietnamese Nom"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Nôm form of vay (“to borrow”)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Nôm",
          "chữ Nôm#Vietnamese"
        ],
        [
          "vay",
          "vay#Vietnamese"
        ],
        [
          "borrow",
          "borrow"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "爲"
}
{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
  "msg": "unrecognized head form: “to do",
  "path": [
    "爲"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "definitions",
  "title": "爲",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
  "msg": "unrecognized head form: to make",
  "path": [
    "爲"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "definitions",
  "title": "爲",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
  "msg": "unrecognized head form: to administer",
  "path": [
    "爲"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "definitions",
  "title": "爲",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
  "msg": "unrecognized head form: to govern",
  "path": [
    "爲"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "definitions",
  "title": "爲",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
  "msg": "unrecognized head form: This character is a variant traditional form of 為",
  "path": [
    "爲"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "definitions",
  "title": "爲",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
  "msg": "unrecognized head form: *HO__lpar__Y__rpar__-",
  "path": [
    "爲"
  ],
  "section": "Old Korean",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "爲",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1147",
  "msg": "suspicious related form tags ['canonical']: '爲: Hán Việt readings: vị' in '爲: Hán Việt readings: vị, vì 爲: Nôm readings: vay, ví, vĩ, voi, vơ, vờ, vi'",
  "path": [
    "爲"
  ],
  "section": "Vietnamese",
  "subsection": "han character",
  "title": "爲",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1147",
  "msg": "suspicious related form tags ['canonical']: 'vì 爲: Nôm readings: vay' in '爲: Hán Việt readings: vị, vì 爲: Nôm readings: vay, ví, vĩ, voi, vơ, vờ, vi'",
  "path": [
    "爲"
  ],
  "section": "Vietnamese",
  "subsection": "han character",
  "title": "爲",
  "trace": ""
}

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