HSK 5 · Verbs

喊 hǎn “to yell” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 喊 means

  1. to yell
  2. to shout
  3. to call out for (a person)

How to say 喊

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale喊hǎn3rd tone, dipping

喊 in a sentence

  1. 有人喊我的名字。

    Yǒurén hǎn wǒ de míngzi.

    Someone called out my name.

    Sentence #689562 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 足球教练站在边线上对自己的队伍喊出指令。

    Zúqiú jiàoliàn zhàn zài biānxiàn shàng duì zìjǐ de duìwu hǎn chū zhǐlìng.

    The football coach stood on the sideline shouting instructions to his team.

    Sentence #3579578 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 大声喊！

    Dàshēng hǎn!

    Shout it out loud!

    Sentence #1406486 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 喊 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 喊 (hǎn) with each of its parts in a different colour
喊hǎnto yell
  • 口mouth · kǒuMeaning part
  • 咸all · xiánSound part

口 hints at the meaning (mouth); 咸 (xián) hints at the sound. Compare it with hǎn.

How to write 喊

喊 12 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

喊 (hǎn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 喊 (hǎn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 喊

More words: Thinking & Talking

观点guāndiǎn · point of view观念guānniàn · notion光临guānglín · (formal) to honour with one’s presence归纳guīnà · to sum up忽视hūshì · to neglect胡说húshuō · to talk nonsense幻想huànxiǎng · to fantasise记忆jìyì · to remember

FAQs

喊 (hǎn) means “to yell” or “to shout”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it hǎn: hǎn with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 喊 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type han with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 喊 from the suggestions. Typing han into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
喊 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.