叫
jiào
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
To be called (a name); also to call out or shout, and to tell someone to do something. 我叫… is the everyday 'my name is…', and 你叫什么名字? asks for a name. Other uses: 叫他来 'tell him to come', 叫出租车 'call a taxi'.
Tên là, gọi là; cũng có nghĩa là gọi, kêu, và bảo ai làm việc gì. 我叫… là cách nói “tôi tên là…” thông dụng nhất; hỏi tên thì nói 你叫什么名字？ Các cách dùng khác: 叫他来 (bảo anh ấy đến), 叫出租车 (gọi taxi).
VerbRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “叫” mean?
To be called (a name); also to call out or shout, and to tell someone to do something. 我叫… is the everyday 'my name is…', and 你叫什么名字? asks for a name. Other uses: 叫他来 'tell him to come', 叫出租车 'call a taxi'.
Is “叫” formal or informal?
叫 is generally neutral.