Kanji Detail for 喚 - "to call, to summon, to shout"

喚

Jōyō Kanji

JLPT N1

Meaning

喚 means "to call, to summon, to shout."
1. To call - To summon; to send for.
2. To shout - To yell; to cry out loudly.
Words using 喚
- 喚問かんもん summons
- 喚起かんき arousal; excitation; awakening
Four-character idioms with 喚
- 阿鼻叫喚あびきょうかん agonizing cries; pandemonium; two of Buddhism's hells
Tattoo check: 喚
- Verified meaning: to call, to summon, to shout
- Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.
Dictionary Citations

The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

yell; cry; call; scream; summon

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

call, summon; invite; be called

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

to call

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

to call

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

To call. Such as the colloquial 呼喚.
Onyomi

kan(カン)
Kunyomi

wame.ku(わめ-く)
Strokes

12 strokes
Radical

口 (kuchi・kuchihen)
Related Keywords

to call to summon to shout invoke cry announce bellow clamor declare demand exclaim loudly proclaim roar scream

魔女集会で悪魔を召喚する。
Her coven conjures the demons.
彼女の魔女集会は悪魔を召喚する。
Her coven conjures the demons.
彼は証言をするために召喚された。
He was called to give evidence.
証人を月曜日に喚問するよう提案します。
I move that the witness be summoned on Monday.
証人喚問はとんだ騒ぎになってしまいました。
The confirmation hearings turned into a free-for-all.
この本があなたの想像力を喚起してくれるでしょう。
This book will awaken your imagination.
コンピュータに向かって喚いても、何も解決しないよ。
Shouting at your computer will not help.
喧嘩したり喚き散らしたところで、何の解決にもならないよ。
Fighting and screaming don't solve anything.
「亜佐美先輩が、ヒロシくんが真田先輩とキスした～って泣き喚いていたので」「な、泣き喚いてないよ～」
"Asami was bawling that you had kissed Sanada so" "I didn't bawl!"
だから我々は新しい愛国心とを喚起して、我々一人ひとりが援助して、一生懸命働き、我々自身ではなく互いに面倒を見る決心する責任を呼び起こそう。
So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other.