U+5582 "喂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
喂
U+5582 "喂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as an interjection used to initiate a telephone call or to attract someone's attention, similar to saying "hello" or "hey" in English. It can also be read as a verb meaning "to feed" when pronounced wèi in the fourth tone, as in feeding animals or people. In its interjection form, it carries a casual or polite tone depending on context, and it is a common character in both written and spoken Chinese, often appearing in dialogues or phone conversation scripts. Its structure combines the mouth radical (口) on the left, indicating speech or sound, with the phonetic component 畏 on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5582 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 喂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 喂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x96 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5582 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005582 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5582 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B3DE |
| kCCCII | 213669 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5E44 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5E44 |
| kCangjie | RWMV |
| kCantonese | wai3 |
| kCihaiT | 282.302 |
| kCowles | 4993 5046 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0418.340 |
| kDefinition | interjection to call attention |
| kEACC | 213669 |
| kFennIndex | 600.10 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6603.2 |
| kGB0 | 4625 |
| kGB1 | 4625 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kHanYu | 10653.150 |
| kHanyuPinlu | wèi(151) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10653.150:wèi |
| kHKGlyph | 0631 |
| kIICore | AGTHMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0418.340 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10653.150 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0197.140 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4E39 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B3DE |
| kIRG_JSource | J14-242C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-FDBA |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2771 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5E44 |
| kIRG_VSource | V0-324B |
| kJapanese | イ |
| kTGH | 2013:2641 |
| kJIS0213 | 2,04,12 |
| kJapaneseKun | NAGEKU |
| kJapaneseOn | KI KAI |
| kJis1 | 2171 |
| kKangXi | 0197.140 |
| kLau | 3181 3182 3183 3184 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0808 |
| kMandarin | wèi |
| kMatthews | 7103 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2175a 3718 3725 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008427 |
| kMorohashi | 03900 |
| kPhonetic | 1428 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+17375+30.3.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.9 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+9927<kFenn |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 109.19 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | wèi粵wai3 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+9927 U+9935<kMeyerWempe |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0808 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 384.080:wèi |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMPT |
| kVietnamese | ỏi |
| kXerox | 252:347 |
| kXHC1983 | 1200.040:wèi |