to call to come and shout to go (idiom); to yell orders; always bossing people around
trad. 呼來喝去
Also written 呼來喝去【hū lái hè qù】
Characters in this word
4呼
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to call, to cry, to shout, to breath out, to exhale
- Pinyin
- hū
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 5133 of 2500
来
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to come, (used as a substitute for a more specific verb), hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2 lai5]), ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2]), for the past (amount of time), (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2 shi4]), (between two verbs) in order to, (after a round number) approximately, (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2 de5 lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1 bu5 lai2])
- Pinyin
- lái
- Traditional
- 來
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 33 of 2500
喝
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to drink, variant of 嗬[he1]
- Pinyin
- hē
- Strokes
- 12
- Frequency
- 394 of 2500
去
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to go, to go to (a place), (of a time etc) last, just passed, to send, to remove, to get rid of, to reduce, to be apart from in space or time, to die (euphemism), to play (a part), (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth, (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker), (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
- Pinyin
- qù
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 21 of 2500