喂
HSK 2freq #1301
Meanings
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- 1.hello (when answering the phone)
- 1.to feed
- 1.variant of 喂[wèi]
- 1.hey
- 2.to feed (an animal, baby, invalid etc)
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Wiktionary
- 1.Hey!
- 2.hello?; yes? (greeting, used when responding to a call, such as a phone call)
- 3.Response when spoken to directly face-to-face: yes?
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声): semantic 口 + phonetic 畏 (OC *quls).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
給猫喂點肉。
Give the cat some meat.
你喂过马了吗？
Have you already fed the horses?
请每天喂一下狗。
Please feed the dog every day.
“喂，哪一位啊？”
Hello, who am I speaking to?
汤姆已经喂过狗了。
Tom has already fed the dog.
她是喂我們的狗的人。
She is the one who feeds our dog.
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