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喂

wèi

HSK 1 Character

What 喂 means

1. hey
2. to feed (an animal, baby, invalid etc)

Other readings

喂 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• wèito feed
• wéihello (when answering the phone)
• wèivariant of {喂|wèi}

Example sentences

• 喂。
  Speaking.
• 喂！
  Hello!
• 我要喂狗。
  I'll feed the dog.
• 唉唷喂啊！
  Whoopsie!
• 我喂了猫。
  I fed the cat.
• 我喂过狗了。
  I fed the dog.

Words starting with 喂

• 喂养wèi yǎngto feed (a child, domestic animal etc); to keep; to raise (an animal)
• 喂奶wèi nǎito breast-feed
• 喂食wèi shíto feed
• 喂料wèi liàoto feed (also fig.)
• 喂母乳wèi mǔ rǔbreastfeeding
• 喂哺wèi bǔto feed (a baby)

Words containing 喂

• 投喂tóu wèito feed (an animal)
• 母乳喂养mǔ rǔ wèi yǎngbreastfeeding
• 良心喂狗liáng xīn wèi gǒuto have fed one's conscience to the dogs (idiom); devoid of conscience
• 饲喂sì wèito feed (an animal)

Characters built on 畏

These share the phonetic component 畏 (wèi), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 猥wěihumble; rustic; plentiful
• 偎wēito cuddle
• 煨wēito simmer; to roast in ashes
• 隈wēibay; cove

Characters that look like 喂

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 唯wéionly; alone; -ism (in Chinese, a prefix, often combined with a suffix such as 主义
• 喝hēto drink; variant of 嗬
• 唱chàngto sing; to call loudly; to chant
• 嗡wēng(onomatopoeia) buzz; hum; drone
• 喋diéused in 喋喋; used in 喋血
• 偎wēito cuddle

Sounds the same

Read wèi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 位position; location; place
• 未not yet; did not; have not
• 卫to guard; to protect; to defend
• 味taste; smell; (fig.) (noun suffix) feel
• 谓to speak; to say; to name
• 慰to comfort; to console; to reassure
• 胃stomach
• 畏to fear
• 魏tower over a palace gateway (old)
• 蔚Artemisia japonica; luxuriant; resplendent
• 尉military officer
• 渭the Wei River in Shaanxi through the Guanzhong Plain 关中平原