Call in Chinese
to call · HSK 1
叫
外面有人在叫你。 Someone outside is calling you.
Other ways to say call
More words with 叫
How do you say call in Chinese?
Call in Chinese is 叫 (jiào). You can also say 打电话 (dǎ diàn huà), 称 (chēng), 称呼 (chēng hu), 通话 (tōng huà).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.