(jiào) - to be called; to call out; to order in Mandarin

jiào

Traditional: 叫

HSK 1

#92 of 5,000 Core 1000

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liàng租zū。

I called a taxi.

。

Please call him over.

？

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Appears in 2 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 叫.

叫做jiào zuòto be called, to be known as 呼叫hū jiàoto call, to page, to summon

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This word is part of lesson 2.