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謂

wèi

say, tell, call

Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 胃 represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

胃 sound component

胃  Sound component

wèi

  

stomach

Evolution

謂 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
謂 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
謂 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
謂 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

谓 (謂) 

wèi

say, tell; call, name; be called; to speak; to say; to name; to designate; meaning; sense

谓 (謂) 

Wèi

surname Wei

Most common words with 謂
Freq.
Word
Meaning

所谓

so-called

无所谓

to be indifferent

可谓

it could even be said

谓

to speak

无谓

pointless

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ʷə[t]-s

hjw+jH

wèi

say, tell, call


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 32.4844% of movies

1288th most common character in movies

945th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

谓

Unicode

U+8B02

Shuowen

“謂，報也。从言，胃聲。”


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