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U+53EB, 叫
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53EB

[U+53EA]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+53EC]

Translingual

Stroke order
Stroke order

Han character

(radical 30 +2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 口女中 (RVL), four-corner 64000, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 172, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3240
  • Dae Jaweon: page 383, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 573, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+53EB

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*krɯːw, *qʰrɯːw, *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
*kriːw
*ɡiw
*kiːws
*kiːws
*kiːws
*qʰljɯw, *qʰljɯws
*kɯw, *krɯwʔ
*kɯw, *krɯw, *krɯwʔ
*kɯw, *krɯw
*krɯw, *krɯwʔ
*ɡrɯw
*ɡrɯw
*ɡrɯw

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕiɑu⁵¹/
Harbin /t͡ɕiau⁵³/
Tianjin /t͡ɕiɑu⁵³/
Jinan /t͡ɕiɔ²¹/
Qingdao /t͡ɕiɔ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕiau³¹²/
Xi'an /t͡ɕiau⁴⁴/
Xining /t͡ɕiɔ²¹³/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕiɔ¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕiɔ¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕiɔ²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡ɕiau³⁵/
Chengdu /t͡ɕiau¹³/
Guiyang /t͡ɕiao²¹³/
Kunming /t͡ɕiɔ²¹²/
Nanjing /t͡ɕiɔo⁴⁴/
Hefei /t͡ɕiɔ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕiau⁴⁵/
Pingyao /t͡ɕiɔ³⁵/
Hohhot /t͡ɕiɔ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /t͡ɕiɔ³⁵/
Suzhou /t͡ɕiæ⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /t͡ɕiɔ⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕiɛ⁴²/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕiɔ³²⁴/
Tunxi /t͡ɕio⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕiau⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕiaɯ¹²/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕiɛu⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /kiau⁵³/
Taoyuan /keu⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kiu³³/
Nanning /kiu³³/
Hong Kong /kiu³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kiau²¹/
/kio²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kiɛu²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kiau²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kio²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kio³⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (93)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/keuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/keuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/keuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kɛwH/
Li
Rong
/keuH/
Wang
Li
/kieuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kieuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiào
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jiào
Middle
Chinese
‹ kewH ›
Old
Chinese
/*kˤewk-s/
English shout

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 6918
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kiːws/

Definitions

  1. to be called
    什麼名字 / 什么名字   jiào shénme míngzì?   What is your name?
    • 什麼 / 什么   Zhè jiào shénme?   How do you call this? / What is it called?
  2. to call; to name
  3. to call (someone)
    警察   jiào jǐngchá   to call the police
  4. to cry; to shout
       gǒujiào   bark
  5. to hail; to greet
  6. to ask; to order
  7. to hire; to call (a taxi); to order (in a restaurant, in a shop)
  8. used in a passive sentence to introduce the agent; by

Usage notes

  • (to call, to be called): When used for a person, is generally followed by one's given name or full name, as in English.

Synonyms

  • (to be called): (xìng, “to be surnamed”)
  • (to order a dish): (diǎn)

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. to shout, to scream
  2. to clamor for or against something, to make an appeal for or against something

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(gyu) (hangeul , McCune-Reischauer kyu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(khiếu, kêu, kíu)

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