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呼 — call, summon, invite

よぶ呼 call

Grade 6 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 8 strokes

U+547C Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #498 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1474 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

call
summon
invite

word

よ yo Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

呼(よ) ぶ yobu to call 呼(よ) びかける yobikakeru to call out to 呼(よ) び出(だ) す yobidasu to call out 呼(よ) べる yoberu to be able to call 呼(よ) び出(だ) し yobidashi summoning 呼(よ) び名(な) yobina common name

こ ko On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

呼(こ) 吸(きゅう) kokyuu breathing 呼(こ) 称(しょう) koshou designation

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

くち口 mouth #30

乎 interrogative particle

Phono-semantic compound (形声). 口 (mouth) gives the meaning. The right side provides the phonetic ko. To call or summon.

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#30 口 mouth