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to call

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

jiao4 jiào

Meaning


Primary

to call

Alternatives

call, calls, calling, called

Mnemonic


[ji-] Jimmy Neutron is in the [4] bathroom of the [-ao] barn, 叫 calling for one of the missing cows that he wants to experiment on. He holds a 丩 torch up to illuminate the room, and suddenly sees the 口 mouth of the cow vaguely illuminated in the dark. MOOO, it 叫 calls.

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