喂
Pinyin: wèi
hello (on the phone)
Example sentence
喂，你好！
Wèi, nǐ hǎo!
Hello (answering the phone)!
What 喂 means
喂 (wèi) is a Chinese word meaning “hello (on the phone)”. It belongs to the Particles & Phrases topic and appears at HSK 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.