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WeChat

/ˈwiːt͡ʃæt/

WeChat proper noun: a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app.

Proper noun

WeChat

  1. A Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app.

Verb

WeChat (third-person singular simple present WeChats, present participle WeChatting, simple past and past participle WeChatted)

  1. To use the app WeChat; to use the app WeChat to contact (someone).
    • The "heads bowed down" (to look at cell phones), those obsessed with cell phones, virtual chat, the Internet, and excessive WeChatting, which we see as a phenomenon everywhere, reflect attempts to overcome the loneliness and disinterest this generation feels, and to make up for their empty...2017 April 5, Huidi Ma, Er Liu, Traditional Chinese Leisure Culture and Economic Development: A Conflict of Forces, Springer
    • With the development of social platforms such as micro blogging and wechatting, Chinese short text classification has great impact on public opinion analysis and sentiment mining.2018 October 20, Leong Hou U, Haoran Xie, Web and Big Data: APWeb-WAIM 2018 International Workshops: MWDA, BAH, KGMA, DMMOOC, DS, Macau, China, July 23–25, 2018, Revised Selected Papers, Springer

WeChat meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Arabic

WeChat in Hindi

app - transliterations and translations
वीचैट vīcaiṭ

WeChat in Tamil

அளாவி

WeChat in Bengali

app - transliterations and translations
উইচ্যাট uiccaṭ

WeChat in Arabic

app - transliterations and translations
وِي تْشَات wī tšāt
More languagesFewer languages
WeChat in Malay
WeChat, Wicet
WeChat in Thai
วีแชต wii-chɛ̂ɛt
WeChat in Vietnamese
Vi tín, WeChat
WeChat in Myanmar
ဝီချက် wihkyak

Examples of WeChat in a sentence

  • Wechatting American politics: Misinformation, polarization, and immigrant Chinese media2019 November 5, Andy Ng, Tina Burrett, Jeffrey Kingston, Routledge:
  • I WeChatted a seller calling herself Linda — a name that, amid others like Aadi, Aooko, Mr.2023 May 4, Amy X. Wang, Grant Cornett, “Inside the Delirious Rise of ‘Superfake’ Handbags”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Forms of WeChat

third-person singular presentWeChats
present participleWeChatting
past participleWeChatted
pastWeChatted

Origin of WeChat

Entered English no later than 2012 when the app was re-branded WeChat for the international market. We corresponds to the first character in the original Chinese name 微信 (Wēixìn, literally “micro-message”), + chat.

Words formed from WeChat

Questions about WeChat

What does WeChat mean?
WeChat means a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app.
What is WeChat in Hindi?
WeChat in Hindi is वीचैट (vīcaiṭ). See WeChat meaning in Hindi.
How do you use WeChat in a sentence?
Wechatting American politics: Misinformation, polarization, and immigrant Chinese media
What part of speech is WeChat?
WeChat can be a proper noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce WeChat?
WeChat is pronounced /ˈwiːt͡ʃæt/.

Words near WeChat in the dictionary

  1. webworm moths
  2. webworms
  3. webzine
  4. webzines
  5. WEC
  6. WeChat
  7. WeChats
  8. WeChatted
  9. WeChatter
  10. WeChatters
  11. WeChatting

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: WeChat (page history and authors); WeChat (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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