The Chinese word for to scream is
尖叫

jiān jiào

Chinese Definition

Components
尖
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
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.