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名叫 (míng jiào): meaning and stroke order

名叫 (míng jiào) means called, named.

名叫

Simplified
名叫
Traditional
名叫 (same form)
Pinyin
míng jiào

Stroke order of 名叫

名

  • míng name; noun (part of speech)
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

叫

  • jiào to shout; to call
  • jiào variant of 叫[jiao4]
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 呌

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 名叫

  1. míng jiào
    • called
    • named

Radicals of the characters

名
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 6 strokes · 夕 on top, 口 below
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.

名叫 in our stories

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  • 远古时候，北方的荒野上住着一个巨人部落，首领名叫夸父。

    yuǎngǔ shíhou běifāng de huāngyě shàng zhù zhe yí gè jùrén bùluò shǒulǐng míngjiào Kuāfù

    In remote antiquity a tribe of giants lived in the northern wilderness, and their chief was called Kuafu.

    From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9

  • 那天是清明，西湖上下起了小雨。在断桥边，她们遇到了一个撑着伞的年轻书生，名叫许仙。

    nà tiān shì qīngmíng Xī Hú shàng xià qǐ le xiǎoyǔ zài Duànqiáo biān tāmen yùdào le yí gè chēng zhe sǎn de niánqīng shūshēng míngjiào Xǔ Xiān

    It was Qingming, and a light rain was falling on West Lake. By the Broken Bridge they met a young scholar holding an umbrella, named Xu Xian.

    From the story The Legend of the White Snake HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 名叫

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).