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叫

叫

叫 U+53EB, 叫
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53EB
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[U+53EC]

Translingual

Stroke order
Stroke order

Han character

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

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 叫
alt. forms 呌

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 叫
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (丩) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
艽 *krɯːw, *qʰrɯːw, *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
芁 *kriːw
荍 *ɡiw
叫 *kiːws
訆 *kiːws
嘂 *kiːws
收 *qʰljɯw, *qʰljɯws
糾 *kɯw, *krɯwʔ
朻 *kɯw, *krɯw, *krɯwʔ
丩 *kɯw, *krɯw
赳 *krɯw, *krɯwʔ
虬 *ɡrɯw
虯 *ɡrɯw
觓 *ɡrɯw

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 叫
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕiɑu⁵¹/
Harbin /t͡ɕiau⁵³/
Tianjin /t͡ɕiɑu⁵³/
Jinan /t͡ɕiɔ²¹/
Qingdao /t͡ɕiɔ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕiau³¹²/
Xi'an /t͡ɕiau⁴⁴/
Xining /t͡ɕiɔ²¹³/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕiɔ¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕiɔ¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕiɔ²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡ɕiau³⁵/
Chengdu /t͡ɕiau¹³/
Guiyang /t͡ɕiao²¹³/
Kunming /t͡ɕiɔ²¹²/
Nanjing /t͡ɕiɔo⁴⁴/
Hefei /t͡ɕiɔ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕiau⁴⁵/
Pingyao /t͡ɕiɔ³⁵/
Hohhot /t͡ɕiɔ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /t͡ɕiɔ³⁵/
Suzhou /t͡ɕiæ⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /t͡ɕiɔ⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕiɛ⁴²/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕiɔ³²⁴/
Tunxi /t͡ɕio⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕiau⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕiaɯ¹²/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕiɛu⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /kiau⁵³/
Taoyuan /keu⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kiu³³/
Nanning /kiu³³/
Hong Kong /kiu³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kiau²¹/
/kio²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kiɛu²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kiau²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kio²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kio³⁵/
Rime
Character 叫
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 蕭 (93)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 古弔切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /keuH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /keuH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /keuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kɛwH/
Li
Rong		 /keuH/
Wang
Li		 /kieuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kieuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiào
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 叫
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiào
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kewH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kˤewk-s/
English shout

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 叫
Reading # 1/1
No. 6918
Phonetic
component		 丩
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 叫
Old
Chinese		 /*kiːws/

Definitions

叫

  1. to be called
    你叫什麼名字？ / 你叫什么名字？  ―  Nǐ jiào shénme míngzì?  ―  What is your name?
    • 這叫什麼？ / 这叫什么？  ―  Zhè jiào shénme?  ―  How do you call this? / What is it called?
  2. to call; to name
  3. to call (someone)
    叫警察  ―  jiào jǐngchá  ―  to call the police
  4. to cry; to shout
    狗叫  ―  gǒujiào  ―  bark
  5. to hail; to greet
  6. to ask; to order
  7. to hire; to call (a taxi); to order (in a restaurant, in a shop)
  8. used in a passive sentence to introduce the agent; by

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.

Synonyms

  • (to be called): 姓 (xìng, “to be surnamed”)
  • (to order a dish): 點／点 (diǎn)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

叫

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. to shout, to scream
  2. to clamor for or against something, to make an appeal for or against something

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

叫 (khiếu, kêu, kíu)

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