Definify.com
Definition 2024
喂
喂
| ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
See also: 餵
Translingual
Han character
喂 (radical 30 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口田一女 (RWMV), four-corner 66032, composition ⿰口畏)
References
- KangXi: page 197, character 14
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3900
- Dae Jaweon: page 418, character 34
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 653, character 15
- Unihan data for U+5582
Chinese
Glyph origin
Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 口 + phonetic 畏 (OC *quls).
Etymology 1
| For pronunciation and definitions of 喂 – see 餵. (This character, 喂, is the simplified form of 餵.) |
Notes:
|
Etymology 2
|
simp. and trad. |
喂 | |
|---|---|---|
Pronunciation 1
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˋ
- Wade-Giles: wei4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wey
- IPA (key): /u̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: wai3
- Yale: wai
- Cantonese Pinyin: wai3
- IPA (key): /wɐi̯³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: eh
- Tâi-lô: eh
- Phofsit Daibuun: eq
- IPA (Xiamen): /eʔ³²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /eʔ⁵/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /eʔ³²/
- IPA (Taipei): /eʔ³²/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /eʔ³²/
- (Hokkien)
Interjection
喂
Pronunciation 2
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˊ
- Wade-Giles: wei2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wei
- IPA (key): /u̯eɪ̯³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: wai2, wei2
- Yale: wái, wéi
- Cantonese Pinyin: wai2, wei2
- IPA (key): /wɐi̯³⁵/, /wei̯³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oeh
- Tâi-lô: ueh
- Phofsit Daibuun: oeq
- IPA (Xiamen): /ueʔ³²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /ueʔ⁵/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ueʔ³²/
- IPA (Taipei): /ueʔ³²/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ueʔ³²/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: ue (T2)
- IPA (key): /ɯᴇ³⁴/
- (Shanghainese)
Interjection
喂
- (used when answering the telephone) hello; who is this?
Japanese
Kanji
喂
- This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text
{{rfdef}}.
Readings
Korean
Hanja
喂 • (wi) (hangeul 위)
- This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text
{{rfdef}}.