zhāo
beckon
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 召 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
zhāo
beckon, summon; recruit, levy; to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess
Most common words with 招
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to recruit | ||
to greet | ||
to get students | ||
to recruit | ||
to give prior notice |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 47.4612% of movies
952nd most common character in movies
941st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+62DB |
Shuowen | “招，手呼也。从手，召聲。” |
Sources
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