招 zhāo
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zhāo
verb
to beckon; to hail
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '招' v 1; Kroll 2015 '招' 1, p. 594; Mathews 1931 '招', p. 27; Unihan '招'; XHZD '招' 1, p. 958) -
zhāo
verb
to welcome
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: As in 招待 (Mathews 1931 '招', p. 27) -
zhāo
verb
to recruit; to levy
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: For example, 招生 recruit students (Guoyu '招' v 2; Kroll 2015 '招' 1a, p. 594; Mathews 1931 '招', p. 27; Unihan '招'; XHZD '招' 2, p. 959) -
zhāo
verb
to arouse; to attract; to provoke; to cause
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of逗, 惹, or 引; for example, 招惹 provoke (Guoyu '招' v 3; Kroll 2015 '招' 1a, p. 594; Mathews 1931 '招', p. 27; Wu and Tee 2015, loc. 2510) -
zhāo
verb
to infect
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Dialect
Notes: Beijing dialect (Guoyu '招' v 4) -
zhāo
verb
to admit [to an offense]; to confess
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 承认; as in 招认 confess; for example, the idiom 不打自招 confess on one's own, without being beaten (Guoyu '招' v 5; Kroll 2015 '招' 4, p. 594; Mathews 1931 '招', p. 27; XHZD '招' 3, p. 959) -
zhāo
verb
to appoint
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 进用 (Guoyu '招' v 6) -
zhāo
verb
for a husband to live with his wife's family
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 入贅 (Guoyu '招' v 7) -
zhāo
verb
to seek
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 寻找 (Guoyu '招' v 8) -
zhāo
noun
a target
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 箭靶 (Guoyu '招' n 1; Kroll 2015 '招' 2, p. 594; Mathews 1931 '招', p. 28) -
zhāo
noun
a martial arts technique; a trick
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 武技; for example, 绝招 masterstroke (Guoyu '招' n 2; XHZD '招' 4, p. 959) -
zhāo
noun
a prominent sign
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: For example, 市招 shop sign (Guoyu '招' n 3; Mathews 1931 '招', p. 27) -
zhāo
measure word
a measure word for techniques or plans
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '招' n 4) -
qiáo
verb
to disclose; to reveal; to make public
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 揭发 (Guoyu '招' qiáo v; Kroll 2015 '招' 5, p. 594; ) -
sháo
noun
a musical tune
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '招' sháo n) -
zhāo
verb
to tie somebody by the legs
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '招' 3, p. 594; Mathews 1931 '招', p. 28) -
zhāo
noun
a monastic compound
Domain: Buddhism 佛教
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '招' 6, p. 594)
Contained in
- 支招 to give advice; to make a suggestion; to help out
- 首次公开招股(首次公開招股) initial public offering (IPO)
- 招财进宝(招財進寶) ushering in wealth and prosperity; we wish you wealth and success
- 妙招 smart move; clever way of doing something
- 招手 to wave; to beckon
- 招祸(招禍) to invite disaster
- 花枝招展 lovely scene of blossoming plants swaying in the breeze; gorgeously dressed (woman)
- 统一招生(統一招生) national unified entrance exam
- 招蜂引蝶 (of a flower) to attract bees and butterflies; to attract the opposite sex; to flirt
- 招罗(招羅) to throw a net
- 招法 move; method of use; trick for success
- 招呼 to call out to ; to greet ; to beckon; to attract [attention] ; to tend; to take care of ; to notify
- 招降 to call on the enemy to surrender
- 招权纳赇(招權納賕) to misuse power to commit bribery
- 招揽生意(招攬生意) to advertise; to solicit business
- 招考 to advertise an entrance examination for an academic institution
- 招股书(招股書) prospectus (setting out share offer); offering circular
- 招标(招標) to invite bids
- 招贴画(招貼畫) picture poster (for advertising or propaganda)
- 记者招待会(記者招待會) press conference
- 招怨 to arouse animosity ; to arouse animosity
- 招损(招損) to bring injury upon
- 招待会(招待會) reception
- 玩儿花招(玩兒花招) to play tricks
- 招兵 to recruit soldiers
- 承招 to confess to committing a crime
- 招惹 to provoke ; to tease
- 招投标(招投標) bid inviting and bid offering; bidding; auction
- 招收 to wave
- 买马招军(買馬招軍) buy horses and recruit soldiers ; to recruit staff for a business
- 招生 to recruit new students
- 点头招呼(點頭招呼) beckon
- 招摇过市(招搖過市) to swagger through town
- 招待员(招待員) an usher
- 招唤(招喚) to call; to summon
- 招寻(招尋) to advertise for a lost item
- 出招 to make a move (in martial arts or figuratively)
- 招潮蟹 fiddler crab (genus Uca)
- 招待所 reception area
- 招兵买马(招兵買馬) recruit soldiers and buy horses ; to recruit staff for a business
- 招募 to recruit; to enlist
- 招要 to invite
- 屈打成招 to obtain confessions under torture
- 高招 wise move; masterstroke; bright ideas
- 招来(招來) to solicit; to attract; to incur
- 邪招 clever move from out of left field
- 招风惹草(招風惹草) to stir up trouble ; to sow discord
- 招认口供(招認口供) to give an oral confession to a crime
- 目挑心招 the eye incites, the heart invites; flirtatious; making eyes at sb
- 招灾惹祸(招災惹禍) to invite disaster
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Word is mentioned most frequently in
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- 卷一百九十三 志第一百四十六 兵七 Volume 193 Treatises 146: Military 7 History of Song 宋史 — count: 61
- 卷二十六 魏書二十六 滿田牽郭傳 Volume 26: Book of Wei 26 - Biographies of Man, Tian, Qian, and Guo Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 44
- 卷三百十五 列傳第二百〇三 雲南土司三 Volume 315 Biographies 203: Yunnan Tribal Headmen 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 26
- 卷一百九十 志第一百四十三 兵四 Volume 190 Treatises 143: Military 4 History of Song 宋史 — count: 25
- 卷三百十一 列傳第一百九十九 四川土司一 Volume 311 Biographies 199: Sichuan Tribal Headmen 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 24
- 卷二百一十 列傳第九十七: 外夷三 緬國 占城 暹國 爪哇 瑠求 三嶼 馬八兒等國 Volume 210 Biographies 97: Foreign Peoples 3 - Myanmar, Champa, Siam, Java, Liuqiu, Batanes, Maba'erdengguo History of Yuan 元史 — count: 24
- 卷八 本紀第八: 世祖五 Volume 8 Annals 8: Shizu 5 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 20
- 卷四十一 志第二十一: 地理四 Volume 41 Treatises 21: Geography 4 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 20
- 卷一百〇二 列傳第四十: 僕散安貞 田琢 完顏弼 蒙古綱 必蘭阿魯帶 Volume 102 Biographies 40: Pusa Nanzhen, Tian Zuo, Wan Yanbi, Meng Gugang, Bilanaludai History of Jin 金史 — count: 18
- 第一百十九回 Chapter 119 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 18
Collocations
- 公子招 (公子招) 陳公子招 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 10
- 招招 (招招) 招招舟子 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧邶‧匏有苦葉 Lessons from the states - Odes of Bei - Pao You Ku Ye — count: 8
- 弟招 (弟招) 陳侯之弟招 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 8
- 招虞 (招虞) 招虞人以弓 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 6
- 招杀 (招殺) 陳侯之弟招殺陳世子偃師 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 5
- 招贤 (招賢) 敬以招賢 — Art of War 孫子兵法, 孫子兵法 The Art of War by Sunzi — count: 3
- 司徒招 (司徒招) 屬諸司徒招與公子過 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 3
- 在招 (在招) 罪在招也 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 2
- 招近 (招近) 故招近募選 — Xunzi 荀子, 議兵篇第十五 Chapter 15: A Debate on use of the Miltary — count: 2
- 招辱 (招辱) 行有招辱也 — Xunzi 荀子, 勸學篇第一 Chapter 1: An Exhortation to Study — count: 2