First opened Friday, April 7, 2006
呼び出す
よびだす
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 3
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
to summon, to call (e.g., phone)
Yobidasu is yobi, the stem of 呼ぶ (yobu, “to call”), plus 出す (-dasu, “out”).
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In a sentence
彼は私を呼びだした。
He called me out.
彼を電話口に呼び出した。
I called him to the telephone.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “呼(よ)び (yobi, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 呼(よ)ぶ (yobu, “to call”)) + 出(だ)す (-dasu, “out”)”
Source: Wiktionary: 呼び出す (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.