wèi
say, tell, call
Phonosemantic compound. 讠 represents the meaning and 胃 represents the sound. Simplified form of 謂.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 谓
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
so-called | ||
to be indifferent | ||
it could even be said | ||
to speak | ||
pointless |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 32.4844% of movies
1288th most common character in movies
945th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8C13 |
Sources
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