IDENTITY
叫jiàoto call; to be called; to shout
HSK 1Top 420
CORE MEANING
to call; to be called; to shout
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to be calledHSK1
- 2.to shoutHSK2
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 口mouth radical (kǒu)
- strokes
- 5
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰口丩
- mouth
- gives the sound jiào (historical)
USAGE
Common words
大叫dà jiàoto shout
叫醒jiàoxǐngto wake someone up
Graded examples
我叫王小明。Wǒ jiào Wáng Xiǎomíng.HSK1
My name is Wang Xiaoming.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
A mouth (口) calling out — being called.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #420
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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