A hundred years is called a century.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
叫做
to be called; to be known as
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to be called; to be known as
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 叫做 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 叫做 appears in 39 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
A man whose wife is dead is called a widower.
People call this kind of bird a cuckoo.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 叫做.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 叫做.
Directly before
- 人叫做3
- 什么叫做2
- 狗叫做1
- 轮船叫做1
- 一面叫做1
Directly after
- 叫做一个2
- 叫做爱2
- 叫做油轮1
- 叫做鳏夫1
- 叫做看人1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 叫做
What does 叫做 mean in Chinese?
叫做 (jiàozuò) means to be called; to be known as.
How do you pronounce 叫做?
叫做 is pronounced jiàozuò.
Is 叫做 an HSK word?
叫做 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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