huàn

call

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

奐 sound component

  Sound component

huàn

  

be numerous

Evolution

喚 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
喚 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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huàn

call, summon; invite; be called; to call

Most common words with 喚
Freq.
Word
Meaning

召唤

to summon

唤醒

to wake sb

呼唤

to shout

to call

传唤

subpoena

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 14.4802% of movies

1760th most common character in movies

1835th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

Unicode

U+559A

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“喚,呼也。从口,奐聲。古通用奐。”


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