yāo = y + ao1
to shout / to bawl / to yell (to urge on an animal) / to hawk (one's wares)
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How to pronounce 吆

MandarinBanana teaches pronunciation with the Marilyn Method: every Pinyin syllable is one initial plus one final, the initial becomes a person, an animal or a deity, and the final becomes a place in your memory palace — with the tone deciding which part of that place the scene happens in. Remember the little story below for each half and the whole syllable comes back with them.

= y initial

Y is for Maud Younger.

By Matthias • updated about 2 months ago
+ ao1 final

In front of the aorta.

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吆 character breakdown

Chinese characters are built out of smaller characters. Each component carries a mnemonic symbol - one concrete object that stands in for it - and a mnemonic story hands those objects to the person and the place that stand for the pronunciation. Learn a component once and every character that reuses it gets easier.

Component Translations
kǒu = k + ou3
mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls
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yāo = y + ao1
youngest / most junior / tiny / one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military) / one or ace on dice or dominoes / variant of 吆[yao1], to shout
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Characters with 吆 as component

吆 is not used as a component in another character.
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Words with 吆

to shout / to bawl / to yell (to urge on an animal) / to hawk (one's wares) / to denounce loudly / to shout slogans
lit. to shout out hoping for fives and sixes when gambling with dice; a hubbub of gambling
to shout (orders)

Sentences with 吆

吆 currently does not appear in any sentence.

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yāo

to shout / to bawl / to yell (to urge on an animal) / to hawk (one's wares)

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