Wei (given name)

Wei is a Chinese given name. The form 伟 is the most common Chinese given name, accounting for approximately 0.5% of Chinese people.

Written forms

Wei can be written using different Chinese characters and can mean:
As a masculine name:

威, "power"
巍, "lofty"
伟, "great"
卫, "guard"

As a feminine name:

薇, "rose"
微, "small"

Unisex:

唯, "only"
未, "future"
巍, "lofty"
维, "dimension"

Notable people with name Wei

Wei Wei, Chinese singer
Tang Wei, Chinese actress
Dou Wei, Chinese singer and songwriter
Son Wei, Japanese fashion model
Wei Chen, Canadian television and radio journalist
Shen Wei, Chinese artist and photographer
Zhao Wei, Chinese film actress and pop singer, sometimes referred to by her English name, Vicki Zhao
Wei, Korean rapper from the k-pop group "Up10tion"

Fictional characters

Wei, a character from The Lingo Show, a kids' TV show.
Wei Shen, a Hong Kong-American police detective in Sleeping Dogs, a 2012 action-adventure game made by Square Enix and United Front Games.
Shen Wei, a character from the Chinese BL web novel and show Guardian (web series), written by Priest.
Feng Wei, a character from the fighting game series Tekken.