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喚

huàn

call, summon; invite; be called

Strokes
12
Radical
口
HSK
—
Tone
4

Simplified form: 唤

Stroke order

Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 唤, the simplified form of 喚. We do not have a traditional-script corpus to draw the words from, so they are shown as they are written in simplified Chinese.

Example sentences

  • 我是被外面的交通噪音唤醒的。

    Wǒ shì bèi wài miàn de jiāo tōng zào yīn huàn xǐng de

    I was woken up by the noise of the traffic outside.

  • 被闹钟唤醒没有被鸟唤醒的好。

    Bèi nào zhōng huàn xǐng méi yǒu bèi niǎo huàn xǐng de hǎo

    Much better to be woken by the birds than by an alarm.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words containing 唤

  • 呼唤hū huàn 1–4 to call out (a name etc); to shout
  • 唤起huàn qǐ 4–3 to waken (to action); to rouse (the masses); to evoke (attention, recollection etc)
  • 使唤shǐ huan 3–5to order sb around; (coll.) to handle (a draught animal, tool, machine etc); Taiwan pr. [shǐ huàn]
  • 呼风唤雨hū fēng huàn yǔ 1–1–4–3to call the wind and summon the rain (idiom); to exercise magical powers; fig. to stir up troubles