喊

hǎn
verb HSK 4 #1,877

Meanings

  1. 1 to shout
  2. 2 to yell
  3. 3 to call out

Examples

HSK 1
Māma hǎn wǒ huí jiā chīfàn.
Mom called me to come home for dinner.
HSK 2
Bié hǎn le, wǒ tīngdào le!
Stop yelling, I heard you!
HSK 3
Tā dàshēng hǎn wǒ de míngzi.
He called my name loudly.

Tips

usage
喊 implies louder volume than 叫 (jiào). Use 喊 for shouting across distance, and 叫 for normal calling.

Components

radical
口 kǒu
mouth
Mouth radical on the left - the indexing radical. Marks 喊 as a vocal-action verb, joining 叫 (call), 喝 (yell), 嚷 (shout), 呼 (call out) in the family of vocalisations. The mouth is doing the work, with no other body part involved.
phonetic
咸 xián
all; salty (here phonetic)
Right component 咸 supplies the sound (xián → hǎn, with palatal-to-velar drift seen in 减 jiǎn and 喊 hǎn). Purely phonetic - the 'all/everyone' or 'salty' meanings of 咸 don't carry into 喊. The phonetic series 咸→减/喊 is regular once you know to expect the j-/h- alternation.

Stroke Order

喊 hǎn