lieutenant (navy); first lieutenant (army); subaltern

second lieutenant (army rank)

captain (army rank); senior captain

surname Wei

military officer

used in 尉遲|尉迟[Yu4 chi2]; used in 尉犁[Yu4 li2] (the name of a place in Xinjiang)

commander of the imperial guards

see 尉氏縣|尉氏县[Wei4 shi4 Xian4]

see 尉犁縣|尉犁县[Yu4 li2 Xian4]

Wei Lao (c. 450 BC, dates of birth and death unknown), advisor to the first Qin emperor Qin Shihuang 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2], possible author of the Wei Liaozi 尉繚子|尉缭子[Wei4 Liao2 zi5] text on military strategy

two-character surname Yuchi

chief judicial officer in imperial China

military officer

military rank

Weishi, a county in Kaifeng City 開封市|开封市[Kai1 feng1 Shi4], Henan

Yuli, a county in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州[Ba1 yin1 guo1 leng2 Meng3 gu3 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang

Wei Liaozi, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 shu1], possibly written by Wei Liao 尉繚|尉缭[Wei4 Liao2] during the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)

General Yuchi Gong (585-658), famous military man instrumental in founding the Tang dynasty

(archaic) cavalry commandant; cavalry captain

(idiom) military title said to have existed in the Han dynasty, allegedly granted to officials tasked with retrieving gold from tombs to fund military campaigns; (in popular fiction) tomb raider

lieutenant