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Wang Xuanwei
王玄威
Wáng Xuánwēi
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Wang Xuanwei
王玄威
Wáng Xuánwēi
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Xuanwei
玄威
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Book of Wei, Chapter 93 Volume 87: Morality and Righteousness: Yu Shenmen, Duan Jin, Shi Wende, Ji Gu, Wang Xuanwei, Lou Ti, Liu Kehou · 6 passages
于什門 段進 石文德 汲固 王玄威 婁提 劉渴侯 朱長生 于提 馬八龍 門文愛 晁清 劉侯仁 石祖興 邵洪哲 王榮世 胡小虎 孫道登 李几 張安祖 王閭
Yu Shenmen, Duan Jin, Shi Wende, Ji Gu, Wang Xuanwei, Lou Ti, Liu Kehou, Zhu Changsheng, Yu Ti, Ma Balong, Men Wen'ai, Chao Qing, Liu Houran, Shi Zuxing, Shao Hongzhe, Wang Rongshi, Hu Xiaohu, Sun Daodeng, Li Ji, Zhang Anzu, and Wang Lü.
王玄威，恒農北陝人也。
Wang Xuanwei came from Beishan in Hengnong commandery.
顯祖崩，玄威立草廬於州城門外，衰裳蔬粥，哭踴無時。
When Emperor Xianwen died, Xuanwei built a grass hut outside the prefectural gate, wore hemp mourning dress, lived on vegetables and gruel, and wept and stamped in grief without cease.
詔令問狀，玄威稱：「先帝統御萬國，慈澤被於蒼生，含氣之類莫不仰賴，玄威不勝悲慕，中心知此，不知禮式。」
The court ordered an inquiry. Xuanwei replied: "The late emperor ruled all lands; his kindness reached every living soul, and all who draw breath depended on him. I cannot contain my grief and longing. I feel this in my heart but do not know the proper forms of mourning."
玄威云：「聞諱悲號，竊謂臣子同例，無所求謁。」
Xuanwei said, "Hearing the late emperor's name I can only wail. I take it that subject and son are alike in this, and I have nothing to ask of the throne."
諸傳中只于什門傳稍詳於北史，王玄威傳所載詔書有溢出北史所載的文句，其他諸傳偶有一二字溢出，大抵全同北史。
Of the biographies, only Yu Shenmen's is somewhat fuller than in the Beishi; Wang Xuanwei's includes edict language not found there; others differ by a word or two at most. On the whole they match the Beishi almost entirely.