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喂

Traditional: 餧 · 餵

wéi

HSK 3.0 · 2HSK 2.0 · 1

wéi · wai3 (Jyutping)

  1. hello (when answering the phone)

wèi · wai3 (Jyutping)

  1. hey
  2. to feed (an animal, baby, invalid etc)
  3. variant of 餵|喂[wei4]
  4. to feed

Definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · snapshot 2026-10-09. Display: consolidated readings, linked characters and marked pinyin. Original data

Character breakdown

喂

Meaning
interjection to call attention
Radical
口
Strokes
12
Components
⿰口畏
Cangjie
RWMV
Four-corner
6603.2

Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. Make Me a Hanzi · LGPL 3+. Interactive stroke order is available in the study tools.

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