as (in the capacity of) / to take sth as / to act as / to serve as / to behave as / to become / to be / to do / by (in the passive voice)
because of / for / to

= + : This one looks like a bird with crazy hair, and when I googled "bird with crazy hair", wow was I amazed how many birds with crazy hair there are! Penguins are birds with crazy hair! So let's use a penguin for this character.

= + : The crazy hair penguin wants to use the Eiffel Tower's bathroom, but because Willy Walrus just finished it stinks like hell. The first thing crazy hair penguin does is to press the button to release a heap of blossoms to make the air breathable again.
variant of 為|为[wei2] / as (i.e. in the capacity of) / to take sth as / to act as / to serve as / to behave as / to become / to be / to do
variant of 為|为[wei4]
variant of 為|为[wei2]

为 character breakdown

"eight" component in Chinese characters / archaic variant of 八[ba1]

Mnemonic symbol: a crocodile with mean eyes. Beelzebub (b) is fighting with eight crocodiles (丷) in front of the ashram (a1).
one of the characters used in kwukyel, an ancient Korean writing system
power / force / strength / ability / strenuously

= + 丿 : Mnemonic symbol: a power button.

Li Qingzhao (li) just had a shower in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and wants to use the hair dryer, but there's no plug, just the bare end of the cable! She uses all her power to build an electricity plug, and for the two pins she uses a plough (㇆) and a banana (丿). Finally she hits a big power button (力) to turn the power on.
Character component without intrinsic meaning

= : Two petals form a blossom, so let's represent ⺀ by a beautiful blossom.

Characters with 为 as component

variant of 偽|伪[wei3]

= + : Rosa Luxemburg (亻) went to visit Willy Walrus (w) in the Eiffel Tower (ei3) to buy a bird with crazy hair (为), but she finds out very soon that Willy Walrus just wanted to sell her a fake (伪) one: a regular penguin with a wig.
false / fake / forged / bogus / (prefix) pseudo- / Taiwan pr. [wei4]

= + : Rosa Luxemburg (亻) went to visit Willy Walrus (w) in the Eiffel Tower (ei3) to buy a bird with crazy hair (为), but she finds out very soon that Willy Walrus just wanted to sell her a fake (伪) one: a regular penguin with a wig.
variant of 媯|妫[Gui1]
surname Gui / name of a river
name of a river in Shanxi

Words with 为

because / owing to / on account of
why? / for what reason?
to believe; to think; to consider; to feel
to believe / to think / to consider / to feel
in order to / for the purpose of / so as to
to think (i.e. to take it to be true that ...) (Usually there is an implication that the notion is mistaken – except when expressing one's own current opinion.)
action / conduct / behavior / activity
until / (used in combination with words like 到[dao4] or 至[zhi4] in constructs of the form 到...為止|到...为止)
to stop at this point / to end here / to call it a day
to conduct oneself / behavior / conduct / personal character
for sb / for others' interest
very / greatly
to sink down to / to be reduced to (sth inferior)
strike first and gain the upper hand (idiom, martial arts term); Making the first move is an advantage.
mutually dependent for life (idiom); to rely upon one another for survival / interdependent
to go up in smoke / to vanish
rarely known to anyone (idiom); almost unknown / secret to all but a few
lit. to nurture a tiger invites calamity / fig. to indulge one's enemy is asking for trouble (idiom)

Sentences with 为

wàng
wàn
suì
wéi
lǎo
chén
zuò
zhǔ