hǎn
verb HSK 2 #1,877

Meanings

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

Examples

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

Tips

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

Components

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

Stroke Order

hǎn