wèiwéi

interjection to call attention

Original meaning: 

to feed

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

畏 sound component

  Sound component

wèi

  

fear

Definitions

 

wèi

interjection to call attention; hey; to feed (an animal, baby, invalid etc)

 

wéi

hello (when answering the phone)

() 

wèi

to feed

() 

wèi

variant of |[wèi]

Most common words with 喂
Freq.
Word
Meaning

hey

喂养

to keep

喂食

to feed

喂奶

to breast-feed