喂 — Chinese character
喂
wèi
interjection used to call attention
- Pinyin
- wèi
- Radical
- 30 ⼝ (Mouth)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 口 畏
- Formation
- pictophonetic — mouth; meaning component 口; sound component 畏
Common words with 喂
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 喂养 (餵養) | wèi yǎng | to feed (a child, domestic animal etc); to keep |
| 喂食 (餵食) | wèi shí | to feed |
| 喂奶 (餵奶) | wèi nǎi | to breast-feed |
| 喂母乳 (餵母乳) | wèi mǔ rǔ | breastfeeding |
| 母乳喂养 (母乳餵養) | mǔ rǔ wèi yǎng | breastfeeding |
| 饲喂 (飼餵) | sì wèi | to feed (an animal) |
| 喂料 (餵料) | wèi liào | to feed (also fig.) |
| 投喂 (投餵) | tóu wèi | to feed (an animal) |
| 良心喂狗 | liáng xīn wèi gǒu | to have fed one's conscience to the dogs (idiom); devoid of conscience |
| 喂哺 (餵哺) | wèi bǔ | to feed (a baby) |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.