wèi
say, tell, call
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 胃 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 謂
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
so-called | ||
to be indifferent | ||
it could even be said | ||
to speak | ||
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 | |
Unicode | U+8B02 |
Shuowen | “謂,報也。从言,胃聲。” |
Sources
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