叫

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

叫 (radical 30 口+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 口女中 (RVL), four-corner 6400₀)

1. cry, shout
2. hail, greet, call

References

• KangXi: page 172, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3240
• Dae Jaweon: page 383, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 573, character 2
• Unihan data for U+53EB

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Cantonese

Hanzi

叫 (Yale giu3)

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Japanese

Kanji

叫 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: きょう (kyō)
• Kun: さけぶ (sakebu)

Compounds

哀叫 (あいきょう, aikyō)

阿鼻叫喚 (あびきょうかん, abikyōkan)

熱叫 (ねっきょう, nekkyō)

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Korean

Hanja

叫 (hangeul 규, revised gyu, McCune-Reischauer kyu)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

叫 (pinyin jiào (jiao4), shào (shao4), Wade-Giles chiao⁴, shao⁴)

Verb

叫 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin jiào)

1. call, cry, shout, hail, greet

   你叫什么名字？ - Nǐ jiào shénme míngzi? - (directly translated: You are called which name?) - What is your name?

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Vietnamese

Han character

叫 (khiếu, kêu, kíu)