Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- wèi
- Wèi
English
- say, tell
- surname Wei
- to speak
- call, name
- to say
- be called
- to name
- to designate
- meaning
- sense
- to call; to name
- to say; to tell
- predicate
粵語
- 稱呼；叫做
- 講
- 謂語
Variants
Words containing 謂
- 所謂so2 wai6
what is meant by the expression ...; what is referred to as ...
- 可謂ho2 wai6
it could even be said
- 稱謂cing1 wai6
title; appellation; form of address
- 無謂mou4 wai6
pointless
- 何謂ho4 wai6
(literary) what is?
- 不知所謂bat1 zi1 so2 wai6
nonsense
- 謂語wai6 jyu5
(grammatical) predicate
- 正所謂zing3 so2 wai6
like they say; as the saying goes [written and colloquial]
- 謂詞wai6 ci4
predicate (in logic and grammar)
- 冇所謂mou5 so2 wai6
doesn't matter (spoken)
- 無所謂mou4 so2 wai6
to be indifferent
- 不謂bat1 wai6
cannot be deemed
- 主謂zyu2 wai6
(linguistics) subject and predicate
- 意謂ji3 wai6
to mean
- 講多無謂gong2 do1 mou4 wai6
there is no use talking; it's pointless to talk anymore about it; there is nothing more to say on it [colloquial]
- 喊都無謂haam3 dou1 mou4 wai6
no use in crying
- 所謂啊so2 wai6 aa2
- 主謂句zyu2 wai6 geoi3
subject-predicate sentence
- 主謂賓zyu2 wai6 ban1
subject-verb-object SVO or subject-predicate-object sentence pattern (e.g. in Chinese grammar)
- 主賓謂zyu2 ban1 wai6
subject-object-verb SOV or subject-object-predicate sentence pattern (e.g. in Japanese or Korean grammar)
- 主謂結構zyu2 wai6 git3 kau3
subject-predicate construction
- 講就無謂gong2 zau6 mou4 wai6
there is no use talking; there is nothing more to say; "talk is cheap"; "let's get on with it"
- 謂詞形wai6 ci4 jing4
- 無謂吖mou4 wai6 aa1