(hǎn) - to shout, to call out in Mandarin
hǎnTraditional: 喊
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
喊
Examples
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He shouted for me at the door.
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Stop shouting, I heard you.
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Someone downstairs is shouting for help.
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The teacher called out his name.
嗓哑。
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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