HSK 6 · Verbs

喂 wèi “to feed (a person or animal)” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 喂 means

  1. to feed (a person or animal)
  2. hey
  3. to feed (an animal, baby, invalid etc)

Also read wéi: “hello”

See the page for 喂 wéi

How to say 喂

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale喂wèi4th tone, falling

喂 in a sentence

  1. 你今天早上喂过狗了吗？

    Nǐ jīntiān zǎoshang wèiguo gǒu le ma?

    Did you feed the dog this morning?

    Sentence #333766 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他忘记喂狗了。

    Tā wàngjì wèi gǒu le.

    He forgot to feed the dog.

    Sentence #4270099 from Tatoeba

  3. 我正在喂孩子。

    Wǒ zhèngzài wèi háizi.

    I’m feeding the baby.

    Sentence #2304957 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 喂 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 喂 (wéi) with each of its parts in a different colour
喂wèihey
  • 口mouth · kǒuMeaning part
  • 畏fear · wèiSound part

口 hints at the meaning (mouth); 畏 (wèi) hints at the sound. Compare it with wèi.

How to write 喂

喂 12 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

喂 (wèi) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 喂 (wèi). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 喂

More words: Common Verbs

完毕wánbì · to finish挽回wǎnhuí · to retrieve挽救wǎnjiù · to save玩弄wánnòng · to play with维持wéichí · to maintain维护wéihù · to safeguard无理取闹wúlǐqǔnào · to make trouble for no reason镶嵌xiāngqiàn · to inlay

FAQs

喂 (wèi) means “to feed (a person or animal)” or “hey”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it wèi: wèi with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 喂 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type wei with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 喂 from the suggestions. Typing wei into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
Yes. Read wéi, 喂 means “hello”. That reading has its own page. Read wèi, it means “to feed (a person or animal)”.
喂 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.