喚
yell, cry, call, scream, summon
Readings
On'yomi
- カン
Kun'yomi
- わめ.く
Meaning
喚 centers on producing a loud, urgent vocal sound: yelling, crying out, calling, or screaming to get attention or summon someone.
Most common words using 喚
- 召喚しょうかん
summons; subpoena; citation
- 喚起かんき
arousal; excitation; awakening; evocation
- 喚くわめくN1
to shout; to cry (out); to yell; to scream; to clamour
- 喚問かんもん
summons
- 阿鼻叫喚あびきょうかん
agonizing cries; pandemonium; two of Buddhism's hells
- 泣き喚くなきわめく
to wail; to bawl; to cry loudly; to shout (while crying)
- 喚声かんせい
shout (of excitement); roar (of a crowd)
- 叫喚きょうかん
shout; scream
- 召喚令状しょうかんれいじょう
summons for directions (legal UK)
- 召喚状しょうかんじょう
(writ of) summons; subpoena; citation
- 召喚獣しょうかんじゅう
summoned creature; summoned beast
- 喚き立てるわめきたてる
to yell; to bawl out
- 喚くおめく
to shout; to cry (out); to yell; to scream; to clamour
- 喚呼かんこ
verbal check (esp. on railroads); verbal confirmation
- 大叫喚地獄だいきょうかんじごく
Mahāraurava; The Hell of Great Wailing; The Great Screaming Hell; the fifth of eight hot hells in Buddhism
- 指差喚呼しさかんこ
pointing and calling (occupational safety method)
- 注意を喚起するちゅういをかんきする
to alert; to get one's attention; to draw one's attention
- 注意喚起ちゅういかんき
call for attention; alert; heads-up; reminder
- 証人喚問しょうにんかんもん
summoning of a sworn witness (court, Diet); subpoena
Study
Etymology
喚 combines 口 (mouth) with 奐, which likely contributes the sound and suggests a forceful or expansive action, together giving the idea of shouting or calling out.
Meaning mnemonic
The left side is a mouth 口, and the right side 奐 looks like a person with a large head and arms spread wide. Picture someone opening their mouth wide and throwing their arms out to yell or summon attention.
Reading mnemonic
For カン, imagine a can being used as a makeshift megaphone: you yell into the can to call someone, and the sound 'can' cues カン.