呼
Tap the pinyin to hear it
to call; to cry; to shout; to breath out; to exhale
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 口 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 呼
- Common rank
- #758
- Unicode
- U+547C
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 呼
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大呼拉尔 | State Great Khural or Great State Assembly, Mongolian parliament | |
| 呼中区 | Huzhong, a district of Daxing'anling Prefecture 大興安嶺地區|大兴安岭地区[Da4 xing1 an1 ling3 Di4 qu1]… | |
| 呼牛作马 | to call sth a cow or a horse (idiom); it doesn't matter what you call it; Insult me if you… | |
| 传呼电话 | neighborhood telephone, with sb in charge of notifying others when they receive a call | |
| 呼兰区 | Hulan, a district of Harbin City 哈爾濱市|哈尔滨市[Ha1 er3 bin1 Shi4], Heilongjiang | |
| 一呼百应 | (idiom) (of a call) to elict an enthusiastic response; to receive extensive approval | |
| 传呼机 | pager; beeper | |
| 登高一呼 | to make a clarion call; to make a public appeal | |
| 二级头呼吸器 | (scuba diving) regulator; demand valve | |
| 备用二级头呼吸器 | (scuba diving) backup regulator; octopus | |
| 呼中 | see 呼中區|呼中区[Hu1 zhong1 Qu1] | |
| 点头招呼 | beckon | |
| 呼机 | pager | |
| 呼气 | to breathe out | |
| 高呼 | to shout loudly | |
| 呼出 | to exhale; to breathe out; to make an outgoing call; (computing) to bring up (a menu, sear… | |
| 人工呼吸 | artificial respiration (medicine) | |
| 打呼 | to snore | |
| 呼吸调节器 | regulator (diving) | |
| 直呼其名 | to address sb directly by name; to address sb by name without using an honorific title (in… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 乎 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 乎 sound part | interrogative or exclamatory final particle | |
| 烀 | to simmer, to cook over a slow fire | |
| 轷 | surname |