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叫作

jiào zuò

HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

叫作 (jiào zuò) means "to call; to be called". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 叫作 means

1. to call
2. to be called

The characters in 叫作

• 叫jiàoto shout; to call; to order
• 作zuòto do; to engage in; to write; to compose; to pretend; to feign

Example sentences

• 这只鸟叫作什么?
  Zhè zhī niǎo jiàozuò shénme?
  What do you call this bird?

Sounds the same

Read jiào zuò, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 叫做to be called; to be known as

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