喂 (wèi)
Hey! (calling attention); to feed
How 喂 is written
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 口 — mouth
- Traditional
- 喂
- Simplified
- 喂 (unchanged)
喂 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- wéi
- hello (when answering the phone)
- wèi
- hey; to feed (an animal, baby, invalid etc)
Common words using 喂
- 喂奶 wèinǎi
- to breast-feed
- 餵食 wèishí
- to feed
- 餵養 wèiyǎng
- to feed (a child, domestic animal etc.); to keep; to raise (an animal)
喂 in a sentence
喂！請等一下。
Wèi! Qǐng děng yíxià.
“Hey! Please wait a moment.”
How common is 喂?
喂 is the 1,985th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 97.1% of all running text.
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