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jiào

HSK 1 · word 173 of 3,000

Meaning

Example sentence

叫救护车。

jiào jiù hù chē

Call an ambulance.

The character 叫

is , a mouth, with for the sound: to call out. It also gives a name — 我叫王明 — and puts someone up to something: 叫他来, tell him to come.

Words containing 叫

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