叫做 (jiào zuò) — to be called; to be known as | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

verb

to be calledto be known as

Examples

叫做？
Zhè zhǒng shuǐ guǒ jiào zuò shén me?
What is this kind of fruit called?
叫做。
Nà ge dì fāng jiào zuò cháng chéng.
That place is called the Great Wall.
叫做，。
Tā jiào zuò lǐ míng, shì wǒ de tóng xué.
He is called Li Ming, and he is my classmate.

Origin

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

补充bǔchōngVerb + complement

An action followed by its result or direction.

The idea of 叫 as calling joins with the as sense of 做 to mean to be called.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

口丩叫

Meaning part形符xíngfú

口口kǒumouth

Sound part声符shēngfú

丩

丩jiū叫jiào

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

叫 shows a mouth 口 and a sound part 丩. The mouth fits the old sense of shouting.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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