(jiào) - to be called; to call out; to order in Mandarin
jiàoTraditional: 叫
Translation
to be called; to call out; to order
Word origin
叫 (jiào, 'to call, to be called') is a phono-semantic compound: 口 (the mouth radical) marks it as a vocal act, with 丩 (jiū) as the phonetic component.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 口 (mouth radical) + 丩 (jiū, phonetic)
Stroke order
叫
Examples
？
What is your name?
，。
He called out and startled me.
辆租。
I called a taxi.
。
Please call him over.
？
What is this kind of flower called?
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 叫.
Used in
Stories
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