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尖叫jiān jiào
scream
Definitions
| Chinese > English | ||
| 尖叫 | jiānjiào | |
| 1. v. to scream; to shriek | ||
| Components | ||
| 尖 | jiān | |
| 1. sharp; having a sharp tip; pointy | ||
| 2. acute | ||
| 3. shrewd | ||
| 4. point; tip | ||
| 筆尖 - tip of a pen | ||
| 5. (card games) ace | ||
| 叫 | jiào | |
| 1. to be called | ||
| 你 叫 什麼 名字？ - What is your name? | ||
| 這 叫 什麼？ - How do you call this? / What is it called? | ||
| 你 叫 咩 名 呀？ - What is your name? | ||
| 雖然 個 名 叫 @…，但 @… - although it is called (..., ...) | ||
| 乜嘢 叫 @…？ - What is (...?) | ||
| 終於 明白 乜嘢 叫 @… - to finally realize what (... is) | ||
| 2. to call; to name | ||
| 我們 經常 叫 他 的 綽號。 - We often call him by his nickname. | ||
| 我 可以 叫 他 @戴夫 嗎？ - May I call him Dave? | ||
| 3. to call (someone) | ||
| 叫 警察 - to call the police | ||
| 要是 需要 什麼，我 就 叫 你。 - I'll call you if anything is needed. | ||
| 4. to yell; to shout | ||
| 狗 叫 - dog bark | ||
| 她 高興 地 叫 起來，投入 了 她 母親 的 懷抱。 - With a cry of joy, she fell into her mother's arms. | ||
| 5. to hail; to greet | ||
| 6. (ditransitive) to ask; to order | ||
| 叫 他 待 在 家裡。 - Ask him to stay home. | ||
| 醫生 叫 他 休息 幾 天。 - The doctor told him to lay off a couple of days. | ||
| 叫 佢 唔好 再 搵 我 - ask them not to try to contact me ever again | ||
| 叫 佢 教 你 幾 句 中文man4-2 - ask them to teach you a few phrases of Chinese | ||
| 張 凳 噉 細 你 叫 佢 點 坐 呀？ - How can you expect them to sit down when the chair is so small? | ||
| 7. to hire; to call (a taxi); to order (in a restaurant, in a shop) | ||
| 我 給 你 叫 什麼 菜？ 肉排 還是 魚？ - What shall I order for you? Steak or fish? | ||
| 叫 碟 炒飯 - to order some fried rice | ||
| 8. (dialectal) to cry; to weep | ||
| 9. (used in a passive sentence to introduce the agent); by | ||
| 莊稼 叫 大水 沖 走 了。 - The crops were washed away by the flood. | ||
| 10. usage. (sense, to call, to be called) When used for a person, 叫 is generally followed by one's given name or full name, as in English. | ||
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Pronunciation
jiān jiào
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