Chinese symbol for “squeal”
啸叫
xiào jiào
Traditional: 嘯叫
to squeal; to screech
The closest CC-CEDICT match for squeal is 啸叫 (xiào jiào), defined as: to squeal; to screech.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “squeal”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 啸叫.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 海啸 (海嘯) | hǎi xiào | tsunami |
| 呼啸 (呼嘯) | hū xiào | to whistle; to scream; to whiz |
| 呼啸而过 (呼嘯而過) | hū xiào ér guò | to whistle past; to hurtle past |
| 紫啸鸫 (紫嘯鶇) | zǐ xiào dōng | (bird species of China) blue whistling thrush (Myophonus caeruleus) |
| 叫做 | jiào zuò | to be called; to be known as |
| 名叫 | míng jiào | called; named |
| 尖叫 | jiān jiào | to screech; to shriek |
| 叫声 (叫聲) | jiào shēng | yelling (sound made by person); barking |
See also: Japanese symbol for “squeal”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.