唤喚 in English

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 喚, the traditional character: 唤 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Small seal script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 他获得了召唤幽灵列车的能力。

  He gained the power to summon ghost trains.

• 你为什么要唤我起来，告诉我如此晴天霹雳的消息? 现在你教我如何认真工作?

  Why did you wake me up to tell me something that big? Now, I'll never be able to concentrate on my work!

• 我是被外面的交通噪音唤醒的。

  I was woken up by the noise of the traffic outside.

• 我的表兄弟太过沉浸于学业，以致于他的朋友们唤他作书虫。

  My cousin is so steeped in schoolwork that his friends call him bookworm.

• 被闹钟唤醒没有被鸟唤醒的好。

  Much better to be woken by the birds than by an alarm.

All example sentences with 唤