jiào​hún

to summon a soul

叫魂 jiào//hún
to summon a soul
to summon back the soul of a person (usually a child or someone sick or dying) through ritual calling, based on folk beliefs that illness or shock is caused by soul loss
to call incessantly
(colloquial) to call someone's name repeatedly and annoyingly, often used in a rhetorical question to express irritation

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