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Hanzi Character Search: 喂

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喂
interjection to call attention
Radical
Strokes (without radical) 9 Total Strokes 12
Mandarin reading weì Cantonese reading wai2 wai3
Japanese on reading ki kai Japanese kun reading nageku
Korean reading Vietnamese reading ỏi
Semantic Variant(s)
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CEDICT Entries:

   [ weí ]    hello (when answering the phone)
   [ weì ]    hey, to feed (an animal, baby, invalid etc)
   [ weì naǐ ]    to breast-feed
   [ weì ]    variant of 餵|喂[wei4]
   [ weì ]    to feed
   [ weì ]    to feed (a baby)
   [ weì ]    to feed (also fig.)
   [ weì ]    breastfeeding
   [ weì shí ]    to feed
   [ weì yǎng ]    to feed (a child, domestic animal etc), to keep, to raise (an animal)
⇒    [ weì yǎng ]    breastfeeding
⇒    [ liáng xīn weì goǔ ]    to have fed one's conscience to the dogs (idiom), devoid of conscience

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