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(hǎn) - to shout, to call out in Mandarin

hǎn

Traditional: 喊

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Translation

to shout, to call out

Word origin

A phono-semantic compound of 口 (kǒu, mouth) and 咸 (xián, phonetic), the mouth radical marking it as an act of the voice.

Origin
phono-semantic compound
Root
口 (kǒu, mouth) + 咸 (xián, phonetic)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 喊

Examples

He shouted for me at the door.

Stop shouting, I heard you.

Someone downstairs is shouting for help.

The teacher called out his name.

sǎng

She shouted until she was hoarse.

喊 (hǎn) is to raise your voice: shouting across a street, calling someone in from the garden, yelling for help. It is louder and more physical than 叫, which covers everything from calling a taxi to a dog barking.

It takes an object directly, so 喊我 is shout for me and 喊他的名字 is call out his name. With 着 or a resultative it describes the manner of shouting: 喊得很大声, 喊了半天.

The trap is that Chinese does not need "at". English "he shouted at me" becomes 他冲我喊 or simply 他喊我, and inserting a preposition on the English pattern produces something no one says. Note too that anger is not built into the word; 喊 by itself is just volume.

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This word is part of lesson 47.