叫ぶ
さけぶ · sakebu · JLPT N3 · verb-godan
to shout
📢 sakebu sounds like sake + boo: one sake too many and you shout boo
The kanji 叫 has the mouth radical 口 on the left, so it is a sound that comes out of the mouth. The right part 丩 means twisting, a voice wrung out at full strength. Remember it as sake, then BOO: loud and raw.
叫 — mouth 口 + 丩 (phonetic)
叫 is a phono-semantic compound. The 口 (mouth) radical gives the meaning, since the word involves vocal action like shouting or calling. The right side 丩 supplies the sound, originally depicting twisted cords and used here purely as a phonetic marker.