wěi

latitude

woof (horizontal thread in weaving); weft

silk thread (纟) + phonetic (韦) = horizontal weft thread

The silk radical anchors the meaning: weft threads are the horizontal threads woven across a fabric. 韦 provides the wěi sound and does not carry meaning here.

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Silk threadSemantic
Tanned leatherPhonetic

这个城市位于北三十度左右。

zhè ge chéng shì wèi yú běi wěi sān shí dù zuǒ yòu。

This city is located at around 30 degrees north latitude.

织布时,线要与经线交叉才能成布。

zhī bù shí, wěi xiàn yào yǔ jīng xiàn jiāo chā cái néng chéng bù。

When weaving cloth, the weft threads must cross the warp threads to form fabric.

Words with 纬

高纬度

gāo wěi dù

high latitude (i.e. near the poles)

北纬

běi wěi

north latitude

南纬

nán wěi

south latitude

地心纬度

dì xīn wěi dù

geocentric latitude (i.e. angle between the equatorial plane and straight line from center of the earth)

地理纬度

dì lǐ wěi dù

geographic latitude (i.e. angle between the equatorial plane and the normal to the reference ellipsoid)

纬度

wěi dù

latitude

经纬

jīng wěi

warp and woof

经纬仪

jīng wěi yí

theodolite

经纬密度

jīng wěi mì dù

(textiles) thread count

经纬线

jīng wěi xiàn

lines of latitude and longitude

纬纱

wěi shā

woof (horizontal thread in weaving)

纬圈

wěi quān

line of latitude

More characters with 纟

绿