叫
jiào HSK1

cry

叫 jiào
order verb
to order, ask, or command someone to do something

医生叫我多喝水。

yī​shēng jiào wǒ duō hē shuǐ.

The doctor told me to drink more water.

be called verb
to be named or called by a specific name

你叫什么名字？

nǐ jiào shén​me míng​zi?

What is your name?

shout verb
to shout, yell, or cry out loudly

别在大街上乱叫。

bié zài dà​jiē shàng luàn jiào.

Don't shout in the street.

make adverb
to cause or make (someone feel a certain way or do something)
by preposition
a marker used to introduce the agent in a passive sentence

雨伞叫人拿走了。

yǔ​sǎn jiào rén ná​zǒu le.

The umbrella was taken by someone.

Cross-References

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)