created sense approved 叫魂 · jiàohún · to summon a soul — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
叫魂
jiàohún
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
叫, 魂
叫 (literal) → 叫 · jiào · to summon 魂 (literal) → 魂 · hún · soul
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition
created sense approved 叫魂 · jiàohún · to call incessantly — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
叫魂
jiàohún
to call incessantly
(colloquial) to call someone's name repeatedly and annoyingly, often used in a rhetorical question to express irritation
叫, 魂
叫 (literal) → 叫 · jiào · to call 魂 (literal) → 魂 · hún · soul
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition