surname Wei; name of a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States; Wei state, founded by Cao Cao 曹操[Cao2 Cao1], one of the Three Kingdoms after the Han dynasty; the Wei dynasty 221–265; Wei Prefecture or Wei County at various times in history
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tower over a palace gateway (old)
History of Wei of the Northern Dynasties, tenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled by Wei Shou 魏收[Wei4 Shou1] in 554 during Northern Qi Dynasty 北齊|北齐[Bei3 Qi2], 114 scrolls
Wei County or Weixian, a county in Handan City 邯鄲市|邯郸市[Han2 dan1 Shi4], Hebei
Wei State (407-225 BC), one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 戰國七雄|战国七雄; Wei State or Cao Wei 曹魏 (220-265), the most powerful of the Three Kingdoms
Wei Wei (1920–2008), novelist and poet, author of award-winning novel The Orient 東方|东方[Dong1 fang1] about the Korean war
Wei Zheng (580-643), Tang politician and historian, notorious as a critic, editor of History of the Sui Dynasty 隋書|隋书
Wei Shou (506-572), writer and historian of Northern dynasty Qi 北齊|北齐[Bei3 Qi2], compiler of History of Wei of the Northern dynasties 魏書|魏书[Wei4 shu1]
Wei (220-265) and Jin (265-420) dynasties
Wei Yuan (1794-1857), Qing dynasty thinker, historian and scholar
Weimar, Germany
see 魏都區|魏都区[Wei4 du1 Qu1]
Wei Jingsheng (1950-), Beijing-based Chinese dissident, imprisoned 1978-1993 and 1995-1997, released to the US in 1997
Wei Boyang (c. 100-170), Chinese author and alchemist
Wedemeyer (name); Albert Coady Wedemeyer (1897-1989), US Army commander
Wei Zhongxian (1568-1627), infamous eunuch politician of late Ming
Cao Pi 曹丕, emperor of Wei 220-226
Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), German meteorologist and geophysicist, the originator of the theory of continental drift
Weidu, a district of Xuchang City 許昌市|许昌市[Xu3 chang1 Shi4], Henan
Wei, Jin and North-South dynasties; generic term for historic period 220-589 between Han and Sui