What do you call this bird?
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叫作
jiào zuò
HSK 3.0 · 2
jiào zuò · giu3 zok3 (Jyutping)
- to call
- to be called
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Character breakdown
叫
作
- Meaning
- make; work; compose, write; act, perform
- Radical
- 亻
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- ⿰亻乍
- Cangjie
- OHS
- Four-corner
- 2821.1
Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. Make Me a Hanzi · LGPL 3+. Interactive stroke order is available in the study tools.