招 zhāo

1. 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)
2. zhāo verb to welcome
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: As in 招待 (Mathews 1931 '招', p. 27)
3. 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)
4. 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)
5. zhāo verb to infect
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Dialect
   Notes: Beijing dialect (Guoyu '招' v 4)
6. 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)
7. zhāo verb to appoint
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 进用 (Guoyu '招' v 6)
8. 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)
9. zhāo verb to seek
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 寻找 (Guoyu '招' v 8)
10. 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)
11. 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)
12. 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)
13. zhāo measure word a measure word for techniques or plans
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '招' n 4)
14. 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; )
15. sháo noun a musical tune
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '招' sháo n)
16. 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)
17. zhāo noun a monastic compound
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '招' 6, p. 594)

Contained in

• 妙招 smart move; clever way of doing something
• 招手 to wave; to beckon
• 首次公开招股(首次公開招股) initial public offering (IPO)
• 招呼 to call out to ; to greet ; to beckon; to attract [attention] ; to tend; to take care of ; to notify
• 招兵买马(招兵買馬) recruit soldiers and buy horses ; to recruit staff for a business
• 招灾(招災) to bring disaster upon oneself
• 招牌 a shop sign ; a signboard; the reputation of a business ; reputation
• 招安军(招安軍) pardoned rebels admitted into the army
• 市招 a shop sign
• 招携以礼(招攜以禮) encourage a leader with ritual propriety
• 招募 to recruit; to enlist
• 招军买马(招軍買馬) recruit soldiers and buy horses ; to recruit staff for a business
• 从实招来(從實招來) to own up to the facts
• 征招(徵招) to call to service; to summon
• 招标(招標) to invite bids
• 招商引资(招商引資) investment promotion
• 耍花招 to play a trick
• 统一招生(統一招生) national unified entrance exam
• 招权(招權) to misuse power
• 树大招风(樹大招風) a famous person attract envy
• 招乡民(招鄉民) to recruit villagers [for a militia]
• 招蜂引蝶 (of a flower) to attract bees and butterflies; to attract the opposite sex; to flirt
• 招架 to resist; to ward off ; to fight; to resist ; to greet ; to confess
• 招解 to send a confession for review
• 招聘会(招聘會) recruitment meeting; job fair
• 招人 to be infectious; to recruit
• 满招损，谦受益(滿招損，謙受益) complacency leads to loss, modesty brings profit; pride comes before a fall
• 招册(招冊) record of a confession
• 招供 to confess
• 夜招待酒会(夜招待酒會) evening cocktail reception
• 出招 to make a move (in martial arts or figuratively)
• 招亲(招親) to invite the groom to live with the bride's family
• 招安 to enlist enemy or rebel soldiers by offering amnesty ; to purchase
• 招罗(招羅) to throw a net
• 招牌纸(招牌紙) label; sticker
• 招权纳赂(招權納賂) to misuse power to commit bribery
• 招之即来(招之即來) to come as soon as called
• 招潮蟹 fiddler crab (genus Uca)
• 打招呼 to greet
• 招呼站 request bus stop
• 承招 to confess to committing a crime
• 招股说明书(招股說明書) prospectus
• 招股 to raise capital through a share offer
• 见招拆招(見招拆招) to counter every move; to be full of tricks
• 招权纳贿(招權納賄) to misuse power and accept bribes
• 招来(招來) to solicit; to attract; to incur
• 招寻(招尋) to advertise for a lost item
• 招待员(招待員) an usher

Also contained 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
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• 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
• 第一百十九回 Chapter 119 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 18
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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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 祈招 (祈招) 祭公謀父作祈招之詩 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 2
• 九招 (九招) 九招 — Mozi 墨子, 卷一 三辯 Book 1 - Threefold Argument — 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