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Translingual
Han character
叫 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+2 in Chinese, 口+3 in Japanese, 5 strokes in Chinese, 6 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 口女中 (RVL), four-corner 64000, composition ⿰口丩)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 172, character 6
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3240
- Dae Jaweon: page 383, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 573, character 2
- Unihan data for U+53EB
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Chinese
Glyph origin
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kiːws): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 丩 (OC *kɯw, *krɯw). According to Shuowen Jiezi, its original meaning was "to shout".
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard)
- (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): jiao4
- (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): җё (ži͡o, III)
- Cantonese (Jyutping): giu3
- Gan (Wiktionary): jieu4
- Hakka
- Jin (Wiktionary): jiau3
- Northern Min (KCR): giău
- Eastern Min (BUC): giú
- Southern Min
- Wu (Northern, Wugniu): 5ciau
- Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): jiau4
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: jiào
- Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄠˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: jiào
- Wade–Giles: chiao4
- Yale: jyàu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiaw
- Palladius: цзяо (czjao)
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/
- (Chengdu)
- Sichuanese Pinyin: jiao4
- Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: giao
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡ɕiau²¹³/
- (Dungan)
- Cyrillic and Wiktionary: җё (ži͡o, III)
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡ɕiɔː⁴⁴/
- (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: giu3
- Yale: giu
- Cantonese Pinyin: giu3
- Guangdong Romanization: giu3
- Sinological IPA (key): /kiːu̯³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Gan
- (Nanchang)
- Wiktionary: jieu4
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡ɕiɛu³⁵/
- (Nanchang)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kieu
- Hakka Romanization System: gieu
- Hagfa Pinyim: gieu4
- Sinological IPA: /ki̯eu̯⁵⁵/
- (Meixian)
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Jin
- (Taiyuan)+
- Wiktionary: jiau3
- Sinological IPA (old-style): /t͡ɕiau⁴⁵/
- (Taiyuan)+
- Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
- Kienning Colloquial Romanized: giău
- Sinological IPA (key): /kiau²⁴/
- (Jian'ou)
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: giú
- Sinological IPA (key): /kiɛu²¹³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Southern Min
Note:
- kiò - vernacular;
- kiàu - literary.
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: giê3 / gio3
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kiè / kiò
- Sinological IPA (key): /kie²¹³/, /kio²¹³/
- (Teochew)
Note: giê3 - Chaozhou.
- Dialectal data
- Middle Chinese: kewH
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤewk-s/
- (Zhengzhang): /*kiːws/
Definitions
叫
- to be called
- to call; to name
- to call (someone)
- to yell; to shout
- to hail; to greet
- (ditransitive) to ask; to order
- This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text
{{rfdef}}. - to hire; to call (a taxi); to order (in a restaurant, in a shop)
- (dialectal) to cry; to weep
- used in a passive sentence to introduce the agent; by
- (Northern Wu) Suffix used to form adverbs from reduplicated monosyllabic adjectives or verbs.
- 慢慢叫 [Suzhounese] ― 6me-me6-ciau5 [Wugniu] ― slowly
- 迓迓叫 [Shanghainese] ― 1ia-ia1-ciau5 [Wugniu] ― stealthingly
- 輕輕叫／轻轻叫 [Ningbonese] ― 1chin-chin1-ciau5 [Wugniu] ― lightly
- 好好叫上課／好好叫上课 [Shanghainese] ― 5hau-hau5-ciau5 6zaon-khu5 [Wugniu] ― to attend a class properly
Usage notes
- (to call, to be called): When used for a person, 叫 is generally followed by one's given name or full name, as in English.
Descendants
- → Turkmen: gyw (“sound made to call others in feminine speech”)
Synonyms
See also
Compounds
- 不叫
- 亂叫 / 乱叫
- 人歡馬叫 / 人欢马叫 (rénhuānmǎjiào)
- 刮刮叫 (guāguājiào)
- 叫二排局
- 叫做 (jiàozuò)
- 叫停 (jiàotíng)
- 叫價 / 叫价 (jiàojià)
- 叫化 (jiàohuā)
- 叫化子 (jiàohuāzi)
- 叫化子雞 / 叫化子鸡
- 叫吃
- 叫名
- 叫名頭 / 叫名头
- 叫吼
- 叫哥哥
- 叫喊 (jiàohǎn)
- 叫喚 / 叫唤 (jiàohuàn)
- 叫嚷 (jiàorǎng)
- 叫囂 / 叫嚣 (jiàoxiāo)
- 叫好 (jiàohǎo)
- 叫子 (jiàozi)
- 叫字號 / 叫字号
- 叫局
- 叫屈 (jiàoqū)
- 叫座 (jiàozuò)
- 叫板 (jiàobǎn)
- 叫條子 / 叫条子
- 叫渴
- 叫絕 / 叫绝 (jiàojué)
- 叫罵 / 叫骂 (jiàomà)
- 叫聒
- 叫聲 / 叫声 (jiàoshēng)
- 叫花子 (jiàohuāzi)
- 叫苦 (jiàokǔ)
- 叫苦不迭 (jiàokǔbùdié)
- 叫苦連天 / 叫苦连天 (jiàokǔliántiān)
- 叫菜
- 叫號 / 叫号
- 叫街
- 叫賣 / 叫卖 (jiàomài)
- 叫車 / 叫车 (jiàochē)
- 叫醒 (jiàoxǐng)
- 叫醒服務 / 叫醒服务
- 叫門 / 叫门
- 叫陣 / 叫阵 (jiàozhèn)
- 叫頭 / 叫头
- 叫驢 / 叫驴 (jiàolǘ)
- 叫魂
- 吼叫 (hǒujiào)
- 呼叫 (hūjiào)
- 呼叫器 (hūjiàoqì)
- 呼名叫陣 / 呼名叫阵
- 呱呱叫 (guāguājiào)
- 呼紅叫六 / 呼红叫六
- 哇哇叫
- 唱叫
- 唱叫揚疾 / 唱叫扬疾
- 喊七叫八
- 喊冤叫屈
- 喊叫 (hǎnjiào)
- 啼叫 (tíjiào)
- 喜鵲叫吉 / 喜鹊叫吉
- 嘶叫 (sījiào)
- 嚷叫
- 大呼小叫 (dàhūxiǎojiào)
- 大喊大叫 (dàhǎndàjiào)
- 大嚷大叫
- 尖叫 (jiānjiào)
- 念曲叫曲
- 慘叫 / 惨叫 (cǎnjiào)
- 把飯叫饑 / 把饭叫饥
- 拍手叫好
- 拍案叫妙
- 拍案叫絕 / 拍案叫绝 (pāi'ànjiàojué)
- 括括叫
- 洋叫
- 漫天叫價 / 漫天叫价
- 狼嗥鬼叫 (lángháoguǐjiào)
- 狼號鬼叫 / 狼号鬼叫
- 相叫
- 羅成叫關 / 罗成叫关
- 聒聒叫
- 聲叫聲應 / 声叫声应
- 謾罵叫囂 / 谩骂叫嚣
- 鍋叫門開 / 锅叫门开
- 隳突叫號 / 隳突叫号
- 鳴冤叫屈 / 鸣冤叫屈
- 鳴叫 / 鸣叫 (míngjiào)
References
- “叫”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
- “叫”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
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Japanese
Kanji
叫
Readings
Etymology
From Middle Chinese 叫 (MC kewH), compare modern Min Nan kiò.
Pronunciation
Affix
Derived terms
Korean
Etymology
From Middle Chinese 叫 (MC kewH).
Hanja
叫 (eumhun 부르짖을 규 (bureujijeul gyu))
Compounds
References
Vietnamese
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