Chinese Character Wiki
叫

jiào

cry

Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 丩 represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

丩 sound component

丩  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

叫  

jiào

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

叫 (呌) 

jiào

variant of 叫[jiào]

Most common words with 叫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

叫

to shout

叫做

to be called

尖叫

to screech

呼叫

to shout

名叫

called

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kˤewk-s

kewH

jiào

shout


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 96.0916% of movies

199th most common character in movies

387th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Unicode

U+53EB

Shuowen

“叫，嘑也。从口，丩聲。”


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