HSK 6 · Verbs

呼唤 hūhuàn “to call” in Chinese

Traditional 呼喚

What 呼唤 means

  1. to call
  2. to call out to
  3. to call out (a name etc)
  4. to shout

How to say 呼唤

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale呼hū1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale唤huàn4th tone, falling

呼唤 in a sentence

  1. 妈妈在门口呼唤孩子回家吃饭。

    Māma zài ménkǒu hūhuàn háizi huíjiā chīfàn.

    Mum stood at the door calling the children home for dinner.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 我好像听到有人在呼唤我的名字。

    Wǒ hǎoxiàng tīngdào yǒurén zài hūhuàn wǒ de míngzi.

    I think I heard someone calling my name.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 呼唤 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 呼 (hū) with each of its parts in a different colour
呼hūto call
  • 口mouth · kǒuMeaning part
  • 乎interrogative or exclamatory final particle · hūSound part

口 hints at the meaning (mouth); 乎 (hū) hints at the sound. Compare it with hū.

The character 唤 (huàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
唤huànto call
  • 口mouth · kǒuMeaning part
  • 奂numerous · huànSound part

口 hints at the meaning (mouth); 奂 (huàn) hints at the sound. Compare it with huàn.

How to write 呼唤

呼 8 strokes · 唤 10 strokes

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

Words related to 呼唤

Words with 呼

打招呼dǎzhāohu · to say hello呼吸hūxī · to breathe称呼chēnghu · to call呼吁hūyù · to appeal呼啸hūxiào · to whistle

More words: Thinking & Talking

哼hēng · to hum哄hǒng · to coax吼hǒu · to roar恍然大悟huǎngrándàwù · to suddenly realise回顾huígù · to look back忽略hūlüè · to overlook混淆hùnxiáo · to confuse呼吁hūyù · to appeal

FAQs

呼唤 (hūhuàn) means “to call” or “to call out to”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it hūhuàn: hū with a 1st tone, then huàn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 呼唤 is written 呼喚. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type huhuan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 呼唤 from the suggestions. Typing huhuan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
呼唤 is an HSK 6 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 written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.