音読み: コ
訓読み: よぶ
画数: 8
部首: 口（くち）
Meaning
Call / Summon / Invite / Exhale
- Basic forms
- 呼ぶ — call; name; invite / base form
- 呼びます — calls; names; invites / masu form
- 呼んだ — called; named; invited / ta form
- 呼んで — calling … / te form
- 呼ばない — do not call / negative
- 呼べば — if (someone) calls / conditional
- Common expressions
- 友だちを呼ぶ — call a friend
- 店員を呼ぶ — call a staff member
- 名前で呼ぶ — call (someone) by name
- More
- 呼びたい — want to call / 〜たい form
- 呼ぼう — let’s call / 〜よう form
- 呼んでいる — is calling; calls (someone) / state
呼ぶ（よぶ） is a godan transitive verb. It means to call someone (by voice), call someone over, or call someone by a certain name.
- 呼吸 — breathing
- 呼気 — exhalation
- 呼応 — coordination; response
- 呼称 — name; appellation
- 呼ぶ — to call; to summon
呼 combines the radical 口 (mouth) with the phonetic 乎, evoking the act of using the mouth to call out. Meanings extend to summoning and breath-related actions.
In modern Japanese it appears in everyday verbs like 呼ぶ and in medical/technical terms such as 呼吸.
先生を 呼んでください。
Please call the teacher.
深く 呼吸して リラックスしましょう。
Take a deep breath and relax.
呼吸 — breathing