Kanji N3

呼: call, call out to, invite

呼 is a JLPT N3 kanji meaning call, call out to, invite, written with 8 strokes. It is read コ (on) and よぶ (kun). Children in Japan learn it in grade 6. You will see it in 呼ぶ (よぶ, to call out) and 呼吸 (こきゅう, breathing).

呼

Meanings

  • call
  • call out to
  • invite
Strokes8
JLPT levelN3
School gradeGrade 6
Frequency#498 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • コ

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • よぶ

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 呼

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 呼ぶよぶ

    to call out (to); to call; to invoke

    JLPT N5
  • 呼吸こきゅう

    breathing; respiration

    JLPT N3
  • 呼び出すよびだす

    to call (someone) to (the door, phone, etc.)

    JLPT N2
  • 嗚呼ああ

    ah!; oh!; alas!

    JLPT N1
  • 呼びかけよびかけ

    call; appeal

  • 呼応こおう

    hailing each other

  • 呼称こしょう

    name; designation; denomination; naming

  • 呼び出しよびだし

    call; summons; paging; curtain call

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0; the Spanish meanings they lack, translated by Naraio from their English, are shared under the same licence. Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY. Sentences split into words with IPADIC © NAIST and IPA, through Lindera.