jiào

cry

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

丩 sound component

  Sound component

jiū

  

join

Evolution

叫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
叫 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
叫 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

jiào

cry, shout; hail, greet, call; to shout; to call; to order; to ask; to be called; by (indicates agent in the passive mood)

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jiào

variant of [jiào]

Most common words with 叫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to shout

叫做

to be called

尖叫

to screech

呼叫

to shout

名叫

called