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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”).
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WeChat (third-person singular simple present WeChats, present participle WeChatting, simple past and past participle WeChatted)
- To use the app WeChat; to use the app WeChat to contact (someone).
- 2017 April 5, Huidi Ma, Er Liu, Traditional Chinese Leisure Culture and Economic Development: A Conflict of Forces, Springer:
- 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 spiritual world through newly available technologies.
- 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:
- 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.
- 2019 November 5, Andy Ng, Tina Burrett, Jeffrey Kingston, Routledge:
- Wechatting American politics: Misinformation, polarization, and immigrant Chinese media
- 2023 May 4, Amy X. Wang, Grant Cornett, “Inside the Delirious Rise of ‘Superfake’ Handbags”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- I WeChatted a seller calling herself Linda — a name that, amid others like Aadi, Aooko, Mr. Bao and Zippy, made her seem the least likely to scam me and/or get me placed on a C.I.A. watch list — and instantly she sent me photos of a dozen possible Triomphes.