Chinese word dictionary

叫唤

jiào huan · to cry out; to bark out a sound

Practice word

Word information

Simplified叫唤

Traditional叫喚

Pinyinjiào huan

Part of speechDictionary

HSK 3.0Not listed

HSK 2.0Not listed

Character breakdown

Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.

叫jiào

cry, shout; to call, to greet, to hail

唤huàn

to call

How to learn 叫唤

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Related vocabulary

Words with the same characters

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叫jiào

to shout; to call; to order; to ask; to be called; by (indicates agent in the passive mood); variant of 叫[jiao4]

叫作jiàozuò

to call; to be called

呼唤hūhuàn

to call out (a name etc); to shout

唤起huànqǐ

to waken (to action); to rouse (the masses); to evoke (attention, recollection etc)

唤醒huànxǐng

to wake sb; to rouse

叫板jiàobǎn

to signal the musicians (in Chinese opera, by prolonging a spoken word before attacking a song); (coll.) to challenge