# 喂

| 喂 | U+5582, &#21890; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5582 |
| ← 喁 [U+5581] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 喃 → [U+5583] |

## Translingual
### Han character

喂 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口田一女 (RWMV), four-corner 6603$_2$, composition ⿰口畏)

#### Derived characters

* 𣾿

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 197, character 14
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3900
* Dae Jaweon: page 418, character 34
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 653, character 15
* Unihan data for U+5582

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 口 + phonetic 畏 (OC *quls).

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation 1

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): wèi (wei$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄨㄟˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): wai$^3$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): eh
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: wèi
*** Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: wèi
*** Wade–Giles: wei$^4$
*** Yale: wèi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wey
*** Palladius: вэй (vɛj)
*** Sinological IPA : /weɪ̯⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: wai$^3$
*** Yale: wai
*** Cantonese Pinyin: wai$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: wei$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /wɐi̯³³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: eh
*** Tâi-lô: eh
*** Phofsit Daibuun: eq
*** IPA (Xiamen): /eʔ³²/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /eʔ⁵/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /eʔ³²/
*** IPA (Taipei): /eʔ³²/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /eʔ³²/

##### Definitions

喂
* (used to call attention) Hey!
    起身喇喂！ [Cantonese] ― hei$^2$ san$^1$ laa$^3$ wai$^3$! [Jyutping] ― Hey, get up!
       wai$^3$, nei$^5$ zo$^2$ zyu$^6$ tiu$^4$ lou$^6$ wo$^3$! [Jyutping]
       Hey, you're in the way!

#### Pronunciation 2

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): wéi, wei, we (wei$^2$, wei$^5$／wei$^0$, we$^5$／we$^0$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄨㄟˊ, ˙ㄨㄟ, ˙ㄨㄝ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): wai$^2$ / wei$^2$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): oeh / ôe
    (Teochew, Peng'im): uêi$^6$ / uai$^6$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^5$ue
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: wéi
*** Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: wéi
*** Wade–Giles: wei$^2$
*** Yale: wéi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wei
*** Palladius: вэй (vɛj)
*** Sinological IPA : /weɪ̯³⁵/
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: wei
*** Zhuyin: ˙ㄨㄟ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: we̊i
*** Wade–Giles: wei$^5$
*** Yale: wei
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: .uei
*** Palladius: вэй (vɛj)
*** Sinological IPA : /weɪ̯/
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: we
*** Zhuyin: ˙ㄨㄝ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: we̊
*** Wade–Giles: weh$^5$
*** Yale: we
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: .ue
*** Palladius: вэ (vɛ)
*** Sinological IPA : /wɛ/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: wai$^2$ / wei$^2$
*** Yale: wái / wéi
*** Cantonese Pinyin: wai$^2$ / wei$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: wei$^2$ / wéi$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /wɐi̯³⁵/, /wei̯³⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oeh / ôe
*** Tâi-lô: ueh / uê
*** Phofsit Daibuun: oeq, oee
*** IPA (Xiamen): /ueʔ³²/, /ue²⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /ueʔ⁵/, /ue²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /ueʔ³²/, /ue¹³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /ueʔ³²/, /ue²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /ueʔ³²/, /ue²³/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: uêi$^6$ / uai$^6$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: uĕi / uăi
*** Sinological IPA : /uei³⁵/, /uai³⁵/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^5$ue
*** MiniDict: ue$^去$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^2$ue
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ue³⁴/
* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some! Particularly: “oi? (Chaoyang)”

##### Interjection

喂
* hello?; yes? (greeting, used when responding to a call, such as a phone call)
* (dated) Response when spoken to directly face-to-face: yes?

### Etymology 2

* For pronunciation and definitions of 喂 – see 餵 (“to feed; to raise; to keep”). (This character is the simplified form of 餵).
* Notes:Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore.Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

### Further reading

* “Entry #8189”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.
* Embree, Bernard L.M. (1973) “ôe”, in A Dictionary of Southern Min (overall work in Hokkien, English, and Mandarin), Hong Kong: Hong Kong Language Institute, page 192.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: き (ki)
* Kan-on: かい (kai)
* Kan’yō-on: い (i)
* Kun: なげく (nageku, 喂く)

## Korean
### Hanja

喂 • (wi) (hangeul 위)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

喂: Hán Nôm readings: ỏi, ói, ôi, òi, uy, hôi, ổi, úi
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