叫
呌HSK 1freq #200
Meanings
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- 1.variant of 叫[jiào]
- 1.to shout
- 2.to call
- 3.to order
- 4.to ask
- 5.to be called
- 6.by (indicates agent in the passive mood)
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Wiktionary
- 1.to be called
- 2.to call; to name
- 3.to call (someone)
- 4.to yell; to shout
- 5.to hail; to greet
- 6.to ask; to order
- 7.to hire; to call (a taxi); to order (in a restaurant, in a shop)
- 8.to cry; to weep
- 9.used in a passive sentence to introduce the agent; by
- 10.Suffix used to form adverbs from reduplicated monosyllabic adjectives or verbs.
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kiːws): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 丩 (OC *kɯw, *krɯw). According to Shuowen Jiezi, its original meaning was "to shout".
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
叫警察。
Please call the police.
叫警察！
Call the police!
狗会叫。
Dogs bark.
狗在叫。
The dog is barking.
叫保安来！
Call security!
貓叫了叫。
The cat meowed.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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