谓
wèiWèi HSK4

say, tell, call

谓 (謂) wèi frequency
predicate verb
in grammar, the word or group of words that describes the subject's action or state

在进行句法成分分析时，我们要在主和谓之间画一道线。

zài jìn​xíng jù​fǎ chéng​fèn fēn​xī shí, wǒ​men yào zài zhǔ hé wèi zhī​jiān huà yī dào xiàn.

When performing syntactic component analysis, we need to draw a line between the subject and the predicate.

call verb
to name or designate

这种植物谓之“含羞草”。

zhè zhǒng zhí​wù wèi zhī“ hán​xiū​cǎo”.

This plant is called 'Mimosa pudica.'

to mean or say verb
in classical Chinese, used to signify 'this is what is meant by' or 'refers to'.

此之谓也。

cǐ zhī wèi yě.

This is what it means.

谓 (謂) Wèi
Wei verb
surname Wei

谓先生在当地很有威望。

Wèi xiān​sheng zài dāng​dì hěn yǒu wēi​wàng.

Mr. Wei is very prestigious in the local area.

Frequency
Character
Written text
945th most common 178.4 per million
Movie subtitles
1,288th most common 61.1 per million appears in 32% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.180 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
12.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Traditional
謂
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+8C13

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)