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韋伯〔韦-〕 wai4 baak3 {Wéi bó}

  1. Webb (English name)
  2. Weber

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韋達〔韦达〕 wai4 daat6 {Wéi dá}

François Viète (1540-1603), French mathematician, father of modern algebraic notation

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韋德〔韦-〕 wai4 dak1 {Wéi dé}

  1. Wade (name)
  2. Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-1895), sinologist 威妥瑪

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韋科〔韦-〕 wai4 fo1 {Wéi kē}

Waco

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韋利〔韦-〕 wai4 lei6 {Wéi lì}

  1. Waley or Whaley (name)
  2. Arthur Waley (1889-1966), pioneer British sinologist

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韋格納〔韦-纳〕 wai4 gaak3 naap6 {Wéi gé nà}

  1. Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), German meteorologist and geophysicist, the originator of the theory of continental drift
  2. also written 魏格納

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韋爾瓦〔韦尔-〕 wai4 ji5 ngaa5 {Wéi ěr wǎ}

Huelva, Spain

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韋應物〔韦应-〕 wai4 jing1 mat6 {Wéi Yìng wù}

Wei Yinwu (737-792), Tang dynasty poet

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韋慕庭〔韦--〕 wai4 mou6 ting4 {Wéi Mù tíng}

Clarence Martin Wilbur (1908-1997), US Sinologist and Professor of Columbia University

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韋瓦第〔韦--〕 wai4 ngaa5 dai6 {Wéi wǎ dì}

  1. Vivaldi (name)
  2. Antonio Vivaldi (1675-1741), Italian composer

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韋斯卡〔韦--〕 wai4 si1 kaa1 {Wéi sī kǎ}

Uesca or Huesca, Spain

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韋編三絕〔韦编-绝〕 wai4 pin1 saam1 zyut6 {wéi biān sān jué}

  1. lit. the leather binding (of the bamboo scroll) has broken three times
  2. fig. to study diligently

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韋氏鶲鶯〔韦-鹟莺〕 wai4 si6 jung1 ang1 {Wéi shì wēng yīng}

(Chinese bird species) Whistler's warbler (Seicercus whistleri)

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韋氏拼法〔韦---〕 wai4 si6 ping3 faat3 {Wéi shì pīn fǎ}

Wade-Giles system (romanization of Chinese)

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韋馱菩薩〔韦驮-萨〕 wai4 to4 pou4 saat3 {Wéi tuó Pú sà}

Skanda, the general or guardian Bodhisattva

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韋爾弗雷茲〔韦尔--兹〕 wai4 ji5 fat1 leoi4 zi1 {Wéi ěr fú léi zī}

(George) Wehrfritz (Beijing bureau chief of Newsweek)

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