# 為 U+70BA CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70BA

A Chinese character meaning “do, handle, govern, act; be”, read wèi in Mandarin.

| | |
|---|---|
| Character | `為` |
| Codepoint | U+70BA |
| Name | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70BA |
| Block | [CJK Unified Ideographs](https://unicodekit.com/block/cjk-unified-ideographs) |
| Script | Han |
| Category | Other Letter (Lo) |
| Unicode version | 1.1 |
| HTML | `為` `為` |
| CSS | `\70BA` |
| JavaScript | `\u70BA` |
| UTF-8 | E7 82 BA |
| UTF-16 | 70BA |
| Definition | do, handle, govern, act; be |
| Mandarin | wèi |
| Cantonese | wai4 |
| Japanese | I TSUKURU NASU TAME |
| Korean | WI |

## Related characters

- 点 [U+70B9 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70B9](https://unicodekit.com/char/70B9)
- 炻 [U+70BB CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70BB](https://unicodekit.com/char/70BB)
- 炸 [U+70B8 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70B8](https://unicodekit.com/char/70B8)
- 炼 [U+70BC CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70BC](https://unicodekit.com/char/70BC)
- 炷 [U+70B7 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70B7](https://unicodekit.com/char/70B7)
- 炽 [U+70BD CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70BD](https://unicodekit.com/char/70BD)
- 炶 [U+70B6 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70B6](https://unicodekit.com/char/70B6)
- 炾 [U+70BE CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70BE](https://unicodekit.com/char/70BE)
- 炵 [U+70B5 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70B5](https://unicodekit.com/char/70B5)
- 炿 [U+70BF CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70BF](https://unicodekit.com/char/70BF)
- 炴 [U+70B4 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70B4](https://unicodekit.com/char/70B4)
- 烀 [U+70C0 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70C0](https://unicodekit.com/char/70C0)

Page: https://unicodekit.com/char/70BA · JSON: https://unicodekit.com/characters/70BA