叫
jiào HSK1

cry

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Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 丩 represents the sound.

Components

口
口 Meaning component
kǒu, kou mouth
丩
丩 Sound component
jiū join

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkewHkˤewk-s shout

說文解字

《說文》:“叫,嘑也。从口,丩聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica