叫 is also the simplified spelling of 呌.
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叫
Mandarin · pinyin jiào
Meanings
- to shout
- to call
- to order
- to ask
- to be called
- by (indicates agent in the passive mood)
Characters in this entry
- 叫
- jiào · cry, shout; hail, greet, call
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Mandarin tones
4 · jiao4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
giu3
Cantonese word readings for 叫. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- to be called
- to call; to name
- to call (someone)
- to yell; to shout
- to hail; to greet
- (ditransitive) to ask; to order
- 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.
- (chiefly Mandarin, Jin, colloquial, of certain animals that have a loud cry) male
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