Back to Hanzi

喂

wèi

interjection used to call attention

🔤 Pictophonetic: 口 (mouth) provides meaning, 畏 provides pronunciation

HSK 1 12 strokes Common (20%)

Practice this character →

Practice Progress

No practice yet

🧩 Components

—

Attempts: 0

Last: —

✍️ Tracing

—

Attempts: 0

Last: —

🔸 Start Point

—

Attempts: 0

Last: —

🖊️ Freehand

—

Attempts: 0

Last: —

Start practicing to see your progress here. Practice this character →

Component Breakdown

Each color represents a different component

口

kǒu

mouth; entrance, gate, opening

畏

wèi

fear, dread, awe, reverence

⿰口畏 i

Stroke Order

Component Tree i

kǒu

口

mouth; entrance, gate, opening

📷 Pictographic: An open mouth

3 strokes HSK 3

jiōng

冂

wide

2 strokes

yī

一

one; a, an; alone

💡 Ideographic: Represents heaven (天), earth (旦), or the number 1

1 strokes HSK 1

wèi

畏

fear, dread, awe, reverence

📷 Pictographic: A monster with a scary head 田

9 strokes HSK 6

tián

田

field, farm, arable land; cultivated

📷 Pictographic: The plots of a rice paddy

5 strokes HSK 6

jiōng

冂

wide

2 strokes

tǔ

土

soil, earth; items made of earth

📷 Pictographic: A lump of clay on a potter's wheel

3 strokes HSK 5

shí

十

ten, tenth; complete; perfect

2 strokes HSK 1

yī

一

one; a, an; alone

💡 Ideographic: Represents heaven (天), earth (旦), or the number 1

1 strokes HSK 1

yī

一

one; a, an; alone

💡 Ideographic: Represents heaven (天), earth (旦), or the number 1

1 strokes HSK 1

unknown

Unknown component - strokes not mapped to a known radical

3 strokes

Words Using 喂 (9)

Character

Pinyin

Definition

HSK

喂 ↗

wéi

hello (when answering the phone)

wéi

喂 ↗

HSK 6

hello (when answering the phone)

喂 ↗

wèi

hey / to feed (an animal, baby, invalid etc)

wèi

喂 ↗

HSK 6

hey / to feed (an animal, baby, invalid etc)

to feed (a child, domestic animal etc) / to keep / to raise (an animal)

wèiyǎng

喂养 ↗

to feed (a child, domestic animal etc) / to keep / to raise (an animal)