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Chinese surname · rank 436

蔚

蔚 is read as wèi.

Pinyin

wèi

Script forms

Simplified and traditional 蔚

Basic meaning

luxuriant, thick; ornamental

Five element

Earth

Origin

Time: Western Zhou tradition, 1046-771 BCE

Place: Wei fief in Zheng-prince tradition, often linked with Pingyao, Shanxi in surname accounts; Weizhou / modern Yu county, Hebei place-name layer; Langya commandery association.

Origin note

Wei/蔚 in this surname page follows the surname reading yù noted by surname sources, while the project pinyin may preserve the working-table pronunciation. The origin layers are not the ordinary plant/color meaning: one source line links the surname to Zheng prince Pian, called Wei Pian, whose descendants used the fief name; another layer links the surname to Weizhou as a place name in the Northern Zhou period.

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