| 呼之即来 |
hū zhī jí lái |
to come when called (idiom); ready and compliant / always at sb's beck and call |
| 呼 |
hū |
to call / to cry / to shout / to breath out / to exhale |
| 呼 |
hū |
variant of 呼 / to shout / to call out |
| 之 |
zhī |
(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的) / him / her / it |
| 即 |
jí |
namely / that is / i.e. / prompt / at once / at present / even if / prompted (by the occasion) / to approach / to come into contact / to assume (office) / to draw near |
| 来 |
lái |
to come / (used as a substitute for a more specific verb) / hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回来) / ever since (as in 自古以来) / for the past (amount of time) / (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 来世) / (between two verbs) in order to / (after a round number) approximately / (used after 得 to indicate possibility, as in 谈得来, or after 不 to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不来) |