叫 (jiào): meaning and stroke order
叫 (jiào) means to shout, to call, to order, to ask, to be called.
叫
- Simplified
- 叫
- Traditional
- 叫, 呌
- Pinyin
- jiào
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Stroke order of 叫
叫
- jiào to shout; to call
- jiào variant of 叫[jiao4]
- 5 strokes
- Traditional form: 呌
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Meaning of 叫
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jiào
- to shout
- to call
- to order
- to ask
- to be called
- by (indicates agent in the passive mood)
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jiào
Traditional 呌
- variant of 叫[jiao4]
Radical and structure
- 叫
- Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 5 strokes · 口 on the left, 丩 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 叫
- 名叫 míng jiào called; named
叫 in our stories
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同学说：“你好！我叫李明。”
tóngxué shuō nǐ hǎo wǒ jiào Lǐ Míng
A classmate says, "Hi! My name is Li Ming."
From the story A new friend HSK 1
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以前，有一个怪物，叫“年”。
yǐqián yǒu yí gè guàiwu jiào Nián
Long ago there was a monster called Nian.
From the story The story of Nian HSK 1
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他告诉露西，以前有一对夫妻做的这个菜特别好吃，所以大家就这么叫了。
tā gàosu Lùxī yǐqián yǒu yí duì fūqī zuò de zhè gè cài tèbié hǎochī suǒyǐ dàjiā jiù zhème jiào le
He tells Lucy that a husband and wife once made this dish especially well, so everyone started calling it that.
From the story "Husband and wife lung slices" HSK 3
Stories using 叫
- A new friend HSK 1
- The story of Nian HSK 1
- "Husband and wife lung slices" HSK 3
- Drawing legs on a snake HSK 3
- Chang'e flies to the moon HSK 3
- Waiting by the tree stump HSK 4
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).