叫做

Chinese

		to call; to yell; to be called to call; to yell; to be called; to order	to do; to make; to produce
simp. and trad. (叫做)		叫	做
alternative forms		呌做

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiàozuò

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄠˋ ㄗㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): giu³ zou⁶
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): kiò-chòe / kiò-chò

  (Teochew, Peng'im): gio³ zo³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiàozuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄠˋ ㄗㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiàozuò
    • Wade–Giles: chiao⁴-tso⁴
    • Yale: jyàu-dzwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiawtzuoh
    • Palladius: цзяоцзо (czjaoczo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡su̯ɔ⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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      edit edit 叫作 叫做

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: giu³ zou⁶
    • Yale: giu jouh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: giu³ dzou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: giu³ zou⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kiːu̯³³ t͡sou̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei, Jinjiang, Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiò-chòe
    • Tâi-lô: kiò-tsuè
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kioirzoex
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kio²¹⁻⁵³ t͡sue²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kio¹¹⁻⁵³ t͡sue¹¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Philippines): /kio⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ t͡sue⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiò-chò
    • Tâi-lô: kiò-tsò
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kioirzoix
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kiɤ²¹⁻⁴¹ t͡sɤ²¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kio²¹⁻⁵³ t͡so²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: gio³ zo³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kiò tsò
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kio²¹³⁻⁵⁵ t͡so²¹³/

Verb

叫做

1. to be known as; to be called

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 叫做 (“to be called; to be known as; to be named”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		叫做, 叫作, 叫, 稱為, 稱做, 稱作, 名叫, 名為
Mandarin	Taiwan	叫做, 叫
	Singapore	叫
Cantonese	Guangzhou	叫做
	Hong Kong	叫做, 叫
	Taishan	喊做
	Kaiping (Chikan)	喊做
	Singapore (Guangfu)	叫
Hakka	Meixian	喊做
	Xingning	喊做
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	喊做, 安做
	Wuhua (Meilin)	喊
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	喊做, 安到
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	喊做, 安到
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	喊做, 安到
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	喊做, 安到, 安做, 安著
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	喊做, 安到
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	喊做, 號做
Southern Min	Xiamen	號做
	Quanzhou	號做
	Zhangzhou	號做
	Tainan	號做, 叫做
	Penang (Hokkien)	叫做
	Singapore (Hokkien)	號做, 叫, 叫做
	Manila (Hokkien)	叫做, 名做
	Shantou	叫做
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	叫做
Wu	Shanghai	叫, 叫做
	Ningbo	謳, 謳做
Xiang	Changsha	喊做

Further reading

• “Entry #1536”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.