呼 hū
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 口 — mouth
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
呼声
hūshēng
voice; public demand
Characters in this word
声 shēng
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 士 — scholar, gentleman
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 要求公开调查结果的呼声越来越高，政府无法继续回避。 Yāoqiú gōngkāi diàochá jiéguǒ de hūshēng yuè lái yuè gāo, zhèngfǔ wúfǎ jìxù huíbì. Calls for the investigation results to be made public are growing louder, and the government can no longer avoid them.
- 球迷们要求换教练的呼声很高。 Qiúmímen yāoqiú huàn jiàoliàn de hūshēng hěn gāo. The fans' calls for changing the coach are very loud.
- 居民要求修建公园的呼声一直没有停过。 Jūmín yāoqiú xiūjiàn gōngyuán de hūshēng yìzhí méiyǒu tíng guo. Residents' calls for building a park have never stopped.
Related words
- 呼吸 hūxī to breathe
- 招呼 zhāohu to greet
- 称呼 chēnghu to address; form of address
- 呼 hū to exhale; to call out
- 呼唤 hūhuàn to call; to summon
- 呼救 hūjiù to call for help
- 呼啸 hūxiào to whistle; to howl
- 呼应 hūyìng to echo; to correspond
- 呼吁 hūyù to appeal; to call for
- 欢呼 huānhū to cheer; to acclaim
- 大声 dàshēng loudly
- 声音 shēngyīn sound; voice