Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
围 is a shorthand form of 圍. Feet 韦 walk around a city border 囗; 囗 came later to strengthen the idea, and the first sense was to surround, to encircle. From that grew the sense 'animal pen', and both parts sound like wéi.
Drawn as: feet circling a city; city borders
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