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

to become / to turn into
to become; to turn into
to regard it as an honor (idiom)
to have an endless stream of visitors (idiom)
what one does / doings
to get into the black; to become profitable
to acknowledge as one's teacher
mercy as the guiding principle (idiom); the Buddhist teaching that nothing is valid except compassion
The cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice (idiom); You won't get anywhere without equipment.
Kang Youwei (1858-1927), Confucian intellectual, educator and would-be reformer, main leader of the failed reform movement of 1898
to be intensely proud of sth (idiom)
to consider sth regrettable (idiom)
lit. called a king if successful, called a bandit if defeated (idiom) / fig. losers are always in the wrong
see 成則為王,敗則為寇|成则为王,败则为寇[cheng2 ze2 wei2 wang2 , bai4 ze2 wei2 kou4]

Sentences with 为

wàng
wàn
suì
wéi
lǎo
chén
zuò
zhǔ