呼
hū HSK4

breathe, shout

呼 hū frequency
exhale verb
to breathe out air from the lungs

医生让他深呼一口气。

yī​shēng ràng tā shēn hū yī kǒu qì.

The doctor asked him to exhale deeply.

call verb
to call out, shout, or cry out loudly

游行的人群高呼口号，走上街头。

yóu​xíng de rén​qún gāo​hū kǒu​hào, zǒu shàng jiē​tóu.

The marchers took to the streets, shouting slogans.

呼 (嘑) hū
call out verb
to address or summon someone by voice

她轻声呼着睡梦中孩子的名字。

tā qīng​shēng hū zhe shuì​mèng zhōng hái​zi de míng​zi.

She softly whispered the child's name as they slept.

shout verb
to cry out or yell loudly

他大呼一声，飞快地向终点冲去。

tā dà​hū yī shēng, fēi​kuài de xiàng zhōng​diǎn chōng qù.

He let out a shout and dashed toward the finish line.

Frequency
Character
Written text
843rd most common 210.4 per million
Movie subtitles
712th most common 182.8 per million appears in 56% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
24.8 per million appears in 8% of films
Written text
24.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+547C

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