Illustration: Outside a Japanese apartment building, a parent stands at the open entrance with one hand cupped beside an open mouth, calling toward a schoolchild already halfway down the path. In the other hand, the parent holds the child's forgotten lunch bag.

JLPT N5verbLevel estimated by Bebop

呼よぶ

yobu

to call out to

Example sentences

  1. お呼よびですか。

    You called?

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  2. あなたが呼よべば、彼かれは来くるでしょう。

    He will come if you call him.

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  3. 助たすけを呼よぶ声こえが聞きこえた。

    I heard a cry for help.

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Kanji in 呼

  • 呼call; call out toOnコKunよぶ

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