Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- wéi
English
- surround, encircle, corral
- to encircle
- (noun) circumference
- to surround; to encircle; to wear by wrapping something around a person, an object or a place
- walled village
- big circular table
- to tally, to calculate the cost
- to surround
- gei wai, pond enclosed by an earth bund
- all around
- measurement around something
- to wear by wrapping around (scarf, shawl)
- Circuit, as a suffix for street names
粵語
- 緊密咁包住人、物件或者地方嘅四周
- 圍村（量詞：條）
- 計算大圓枱嘅量詞
- 錢銀嘅運算、統計
- 基圍
- 周圍嘅長度
- 馬路、街名
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 圍
- 範圍faan6 wai4
range
- 圍繞wai4 jiu2
to revolve around
- 外圍ngoi6 wai4
surrounding
- 胸圍hung1 wai4
chest measurement
- 周圍zau1 wai4
environs; surroundings; periphery
- 週圍zau1 wai4
surroundings; everywhere; all over the place [colloquial]
- 包圍baau1 wai4
to surround; to encircle; to hem in
- 氛圍fan1 wai4
ambience; atmosphere
- 圍攻wai4 gung1
to besiege
- 圍牆wai4 coeng4
perimeter wall
- 入圍jap6 wai4
to get past the qualifying round
- 圍城wai4 sing4
Fortress Besieged, 1947 novel by Qian Zhongshu 錢鍾書|钱钟书[Qian2 Zhong1 shu1], filmed as a TV serial
- 圍棋wai4 kei2
the game of Go
- 圍觀wai4 gun1
to stand in a circle and watch
- 突圍dat6 wai4
to break a siege
- 圍剿wai4 ziu2
to encircle and subdue (an armed group or insurgents); (fig.) to gang up on; to attack or criticize collectively
- 圍欄wai4 laan4
fencing
- 圍困wai4 kwan3
to besiege
- 解圍gaai2 wai4
to lift a siege
- 圍巾wai4 gan1
scarf
- 大圍daai6 wai4
the name of a place in Hong Kong: Tai Wai
- 三圍saam1 wai4
BWH, abbr. for a woman's three measurements, namely: bust 胸圍|胸围[xiong1 wei2], waist 腰圍|腰围[yao1 wei2] and hip 臀圍|臀围[tun2 wei2]
- 發圍faat3 wai4
expansion
- 圍內wai4 noi2
within the group; inside the walled villages