Pinyin: gěi

to give; for

Example sentence

请给我一杯水。

Qǐng gěi wǒ yì bēi shuǐ.

Please give me a glass of water.

What 给 means

(gěi) is a Chinese word meaning “to give; for”. It belongs to the Actions & Verbs topic and appears at HSK 2, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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