叫
jiào HSK1

cry

叫 jiào
variant 呌
to order verb
to ask or order someone to do something

谁叫你问这些问题的？

shéi jiào nǐ wèn zhè​xiē wèn​tí de?

Who told you to ask these questions?

她叫他马上离开房间。

tā jiào tā mǎ​shàng lí kāi fáng​jiān.

She told him to leave the room immediately.

to call verb
to call; to address; to be named

你不会叫她妈妈对吧？

nǐ bù​huì jiào tā mā​ma duì ba?

You won't call her Mom, right?

医院叫什么名字？

yī​yuàn jiào shén​me míng​zi?

What is the name of the hospital?

to shout verb
to shout; to cry out; to yell

让我出去，否则我就要叫了。

ràng wǒ chū qù, fǒu​zé wǒ jiù yào jiào le.

Let me out or I'll scream.

to summon verb
to summon; to call for; to hire; to order food or a taxi

我要叫警察吗？

wǒ yào jiào jǐng​chá ma?

Shall I call the police?

我们为什么不叫医生？

wǒ​men wèi​shén​me bù jiào yī​shēng?

Why don't we call a doctor?

to sound verb
to make a sound (of animals or certain objects like alarms)

附近有狗在叫。

fù​jìn yǒu gǒu zài jiào.

There's a dog close by barking.

to make verb
to cause; to make; to let (someone feel or do something)

你怎么能叫我不哭？

nǐ zěn​me néng jiào wǒ bù kū?

How can you tell me not to cry?

[passive] verb
Used in passive sentences to introduce the person or thing that performs the action.

警察被叫来进行干预。

jǐng​chá bèi jiào lái jìn​xíng gān​yù.

The police were called to intervene.

male
(bound form) (colloquial) male (of certain farm animals)

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Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
387th most common 569.1 per million
Movie subtitles
199th most common 881.0 per million appears in 96% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1032.8 per million appears in 94% of films
Written text
376.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+53EB

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)