谓 (wèi): to speak, to say, to name
谓 (wèi) is a Chinese character meaning “to speak.” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 讠 (semantic) and 胃 (phonetic). It ranks #945 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 谓 speech. Its radical form 讠 (speech) appears in many related characters such as 认 (rèn, to recognize, to admit), 记 (jì, to remember, to record), 识 (shí, to know, knowledge).
Definitions
- to speak
- to say
- to name
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 谓
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 所谓 | suǒ wèi | what is meant by the expression ... |
| 无谓 | wú wèi | pointless |
| 可谓 | kě wèi | it could even be said |
| 称谓 | chēng wèi | title |
| 何谓 | hé wèi | (literary) what is? |
| 谓语 | wèi yǔ | (grammatical) predicate |
| 主谓 | zhǔ wèi | (linguistics) subject and predicate |
| 不知所谓 | bù zhī suǒ wèi | nonsense |
| 一之谓甚 | yī zhī wèi shèn | see 一之為甚|一之为甚[yi1 zhi1 wei2 shen4] |
| 不谓 | bù wèi | cannot be deemed |
| 主谓结构 | zhǔ wèi jié gòu | subject-predicate construction |
| 意谓 | yì wèi | to mean |
| 主谓句 | zhǔ wèi jù | subject-predicate sentence |
| 勿谓言之不预 | wù wèi yán zhī bù yù | (idiom) don't say you haven't been forewarned (threat used by the PRC in international diplomacy) |
| 主宾谓 | zhǔ bīn wèi | subject-object-verb SOV or subject-object-predicate sentence pattern (e.g. in Japanese or Korean grammar) |
谓 appears in 18 compound words: 11 as the first character, 61 as the last, and 28 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 谓 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Example Sentences
请谓细阅读合同条款，再签字确认。
qǐng wèi xì yuè dòu gě tóng tiáo kuǎn , zài qiān zì què rèn .
Please carefully review the contract terms before signing to confirm.
外交部驻港公署反对英国所谓香港半年报告诋毁抹黑特区发展
wài jiāo bù zhù gǎng gōng shǔ fǎn duì yīng guó suǒ wèi xiāng gǎng bàn nián bào gào 诋 huǐ mā hēi tè qū fā zhǎn
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Office in Hong Kong opposes the UK's so-called "Hong Kong Six-Month Report," which slanders and smears the development of the Special Administrative Region
国台办回应统一后设施联通、美评估所谓“攻台计划”等热点
guó tái bàn huí yīng tǒng yī hòu shè shī lián tōng , měi píng gū suǒ wèi gōng tái jì huá děng rè diǎn
The Taiwan Affairs Office Addresses Hot Topics Including Infrastructure Connectivity After Unification and the U.S. Assessment of the So-Called "Plan to Attack Taiwan"
独家专访 dlwindle:所谓创造,造的是你这个人本身
dú jiā zhuān fǎng d l w i n d l e : suǒ wèi chuàng zào , zào de shì nǐ zhè gè rén běn shēn
Exclusive Interview with dlwindle: "What We Call 'Creation' Is Actually the Creation of Yourself"
外交部:要求中方参加所谓“中美俄三边核裁军谈判”不公平、不合理也...
wài jiāo bù : yāo qiú zhōng fāng cān jiā suǒ wèi zhōng měi é sān biān hé cái jūn tán pàn bù gōng píng , bù gě lǐ yě . . .
Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Asking China to participate in the so-called "China-US-Russia trilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations" is unfair and unreasonable...
您选哪个我无所谓。
Nín xuǎn nǎge wǒ wúsuǒwèi.
I don't care whichever you choose.
我遇见谁都无所谓。
Wǒ yùjiàn shéi dōu wúsuǒwèi.
It makes no difference who I meet.
所谓爱，并不仅仅是一种情感，也是一种艺术。
Suǒwèi ài, bìngbù jǐnjǐn shì yīzhǒng qínggǎn, yě shì yīzhǒng yìshù.
Love is not just a feeling, but also an art.
所谓陌生人，只是还未相见的友人而已。
Suǒwèi mòshēngrén, zhǐshì hái wèi xiāngjiàn de yǒurén éryǐ.
A stranger is just a friend you haven't met yet.
颜色无所谓，给我一支笔就行了。
Yánsè wúsuǒwèi, gěi wǒ yī zhī bǐ jiù xíng le.
I don't care what color ink, just bring me a pen.
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