叫

HSK 1#200 by frequencyradical 口

jiào["v","p","n"]

to be called; to call; to shout; to order; to ask; by (indicates agent in the passive mood)

Examples

叫警察！

Call the police!

叫警察。

Please call the police.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.