wèi

to speak

surname Wei; to say; to name; to designate; meaning; sense

speech (讠) + stomach sound (胃) = to say or designate

The speech radical (讠) drives the meaning: to say, to name, to designate. 胃 mainly contributes the wèi sound and does not add semantic weight here.

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StomachPhonetic
SpeechSemantic

你所的「简单」,对我来说并不容易。

nǐ suǒ wèi de 'jiǎn dān', duì wǒ lái shuō bìng bù róng yì.

What you call 'simple' is not easy for me at all.

这个词的意思,可复杂难懂。

zhè ge cí de yì si, kě wèi fù zá nán dǒng.

The meaning of this word can be said to be complex and hard to understand.

Words with 谓

一之谓甚

yī zhī wèi shèn

see 一之為甚|一之为甚[yi1 zhi1 wei2 shen4]

不知所谓

bù zhī suǒ wèi

nonsense

不谓

bù wèi

cannot be deemed

主谓

zhǔ wèi

(linguistics) subject and predicate

主谓句

zhǔ wèi jù

subject-predicate sentence

主谓结构

zhǔ wèi jié gòu

subject-predicate construction

主谓宾

zhǔ wèi bīn

subject-verb-object SVO or subject-predicate-object sentence pattern (e.g. in Chinese grammar)

主宾谓

zhǔ bīn wèi

subject-object-verb SOV or subject-object-predicate sentence pattern (e.g. in Japanese or Korean grammar)

何谓

hé wèi

(literary) what is?

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)

可谓

kě wèi

it could even be said

意谓

yì wèi

to mean

More characters with 讠