叫 jiào▶ gọi

Stroke order

叫 is written in 5 strokes.

• 叫

Senses

1. to shout
2. to call
3. to order
4. to ask
5. to be called
6. by (indicates agent in the passive mood)

Example sentences

• 我叫她来。Wǒ jiào tā lái.I asked her to come.
• 你叫什么名字Nǐ jiào shénme míngzi?What is your name?

Related words

• 看见nhìn, thấy
• 来đến

叫 is pronounced jiào and means “gọi”. It belongs to the HSK 1 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 叫 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.