叫 means “shout, scream”

さけぶ · sakebu

Also: exclaim, yell

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

さけぶ

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

キョウ

JLPT N2 · Taught in secondary school · 6 strokes

The story

A mouth (口) beside a twisted cord (丩): a voice wrung out at full strength. 叫ぶ is to shout or scream, and the roller coasters at Japanese theme parks are called 絶叫マシン, scream machines.

Used in 叫ぶ (sakebu, to shout), 叫び声 (sakebigoe, scream/shout), and 絶叫 (zekkyou, scream)

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.