Skip to content
Kotomora

喚

yell, cry, call, scream, summon

JLPTN1StatusJōyō · secondary schoolFrequencyTop 2,000Strokes12

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

Explore all words using 喚 →

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.