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Mythic Mandarin

喂 (wèi): meaning and stroke order

喂 (wèi) means hey, to feed (an animal, baby, invalid etc), to feed, variant of 喂.

喂

Simplified
喂
Traditional
喂, 餵, 餧
Pinyin
wèi · wéi

Stroke order of 喂

喂

  • wéi hello (when answering the phone)
  • wèi hey; to feed (an animal, baby, invalid etc)
  • wèi variant of 餵|喂[wei4]
  • 12 strokes
  • Traditional form: 餧

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 喂

  1. wèi
    • hey
    • to feed (an animal, baby, invalid etc)
  2. wèi Traditional 餵
    • to feed
  3. wèi Traditional 餧
    • variant of 餵|喂[wei4]
  4. wéi
    • hello (when answering the phone)

Radical and structure

喂
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 12 strokes · 口 on the left, 畏 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).