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唤

huàn

HSK 6 Character Traditional 喚

What 唤 means

1. to call

Example sentences

• 我是被外面的交通噪音唤醒的。
  Wǒ shì bèi wàimiàn de jiāotōng zàoyīn huànxǐng de.
  I was woken up by the noise of the traffic outside.
• 被闹钟唤醒没有被鸟唤醒的好。
  Bèi nàozhōng huànxǐng méiyǒu bèi niǎo huànxǐng de hǎo.
  It's much better to be woken by the birds than by an alarm.
• 他获得了召唤幽灵列车的能力。
  He gained the power to summon ghost trains.
• 我的表兄弟太过沉浸于学业，以致于他的朋友们唤他作书虫。
  Wǒ de biǎoxiōngdì tàiguò chénjìn yú xuéyè, yǐzhìyú tā de péngyou men huàn tā zuò shūchóng.
  My cousin is so steeped in schoolwork that his friends call him bookworm.
• 你为什么要唤我起来，告诉我如此晴天霹雳的消息? 现在你教我如何认真工作?
  Nǐ wèishénme yào huàn wǒ qǐlai, gàosu wǒ rúcǐ qíngtiānpīlì de xiāoxi? xiànzài nǐ jiāo wǒ rúhé rènzhēn gōngzuò?
  Why did you wake me up to tell me something that big? Now, I'll never be able to concentrate on my work!
• 你为什幺要唤我起来，告诉我如此晴天霹雳的消息? 现在你教我如何认真工作?
  Why did you wake me up to tell me something that big? Now, I'll never be able to concentrate on my work!

Words starting with 唤

• 唤醒huàn xǐngto wake sb; to rouse
• 唤起huàn qǐto waken (to action); to rouse (the masses); to evoke (attention, recollection etc)
• 唤作huàn zuòto be called; to be known as
• 唤做huàn zuòto be called; to be referred to as
• 唤头huàn toupercussion instrument used by street peddlers, barbers etc to attract attention

Words containing 唤

• 呼唤hū huànto call out (a name etc); to shout
• 召唤zhào huànto summon; to beckon; to call
• 叫唤jiào huanto cry out; to bark out a sound
• 使唤shǐ huanto order sb around; (colloquial) to handle (a draught animal, tool, machine etc)…
• 传唤chuán huàna summons (to the police); subpoena
• 呼风唤雨hū fēng huàn yǔto call the wind and summon the rain (idiom); to exercise magical powers…
• 招唤zhāo huànto call; to summon

Characters built on 奂

These share the phonetic component 奂 (huàn), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 换huànto exchange; to change (clothes etc); to substitute
• 痪huànused in 瘫痪
• 焕huàn(bound form) shining; glowing; lustrous
• 涣huànto dissipate; to dissolve

Characters that look like 唤

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 哦éto chant
• 啦lā(onomatopoeia) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat
• 唉āiinterjection or grunt of agreement or recognition (e.g. yes, it's me!); to sigh
• 哧chī(onomatopoeia) giggling; breathing; tearing of paper, ripping of fabric etc
• 哝nóng(bound form) to mutter; to mumble
• 哌pàiused in transliteration

Sounds the same

Read huàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 换to exchange; to change (clothes etc); to substitute
• 幻fantasy
• 患to suffer (from illness); to contract (a disease); misfortune
• 痪used in 瘫痪
• 浣to wash; to rinse; any of three 10-day division of the month (during Tang dynasty)
• 焕(bound form) shining; glowing; lustrous
• 宦imperial official; court eunuch
• 奂excellent
• 涣to dissipate; to dissolve
• 豢to rear; to raise (animals)
• 轘to tear between chariots (as punishment)
• 鲩grass carp