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
- 迎风招展(迎風招展) to flutter in the wind
- 招诱(招誘) to invite; to recruit; to attract; to entice
- 招唤(招喚) to call; to summon
- 招集 to assemble; to gather together ; to offer amnesty for enlistment
- 招承 to confess
- 失物招领(失物招領) lost-and-found
- 招魂 to summon the soul ; Zhao Hun; Summons to the Soul; Summoning of the Soul
- 花招 trick; maneuver; razzle-dazzle; (martial arts) fancy move; flourish
- 假招子 to put on airs; to adopt a false attitude
- 招商引资(招商引資) investment promotion
- 招租 (of a house or room) to be for rent
- 招数(招數) a move; a gambit; a scheme
- 招投标(招投標) bid inviting and bid offering; bidding; auction
- 招牌 a shop sign ; a signboard; the reputation of a business ; reputation
- 不打自招 to confess on one's own, without being beaten
- 招寻(招尋) to advertise for a lost item
- 招商 to seek investment or funding; investment promotion
- 招风(招風) catching teh wind
- 招式 style; manner
- 邪招 clever move from out of left field
- 买马招军(買馬招軍) buy horses and recruit soldiers ; to recruit staff for a business
- 树大招风(樹大招風) a famous person attract envy
- 招揽(招攬) to attract (customers); to drum up (trade)
- 招赔(招賠) to confess and express regret
- 见招拆招(見招拆招) to counter every move; to be full of tricks
- 招咎 to cause a disaster
- 招揽生意(招攬生意) to advertise; to solicit business
- 招聘会(招聘會) recruitment meeting; job fair
- 出招 to make a move (in martial arts or figuratively)
- 招风惹草(招風惹草) to stir up trouble ; to sow discord
- 招非 to bring disaster upon oneself
- 招人喜欢(招人喜歡) charming; attractive; delightful
- 招架 to resist; to ward off ; to fight; to resist ; to greet ; to confess
- 满招损,谦受益(滿招損,謙受益) complacency leads to loss, modesty brings profit; pride comes before a fall
- 招祸(招禍) to invite disaster
- 妙招 smart move; clever way of doing something
- 目挑心招 the eye incites, the heart invites; flirtatious; making eyes at sb
- 从实招来(從實招來) to own up to the facts
- 花枝招展 lovely scene of blossoming plants swaying in the breeze; gorgeously dressed (woman)
- 点头招呼(點頭招呼) beckon
- 招蜂引蝶 (of a flower) to attract bees and butterflies; to attract the opposite sex; to flirt
- 招财进宝(招財進寶) ushering in wealth and prosperity; we wish you wealth and success
- 玩儿花招(玩兒花招) to play tricks
- 招摇撞骗(招搖撞騙) to brag and swindle
- 高招 wise move; masterstroke; bright ideas
- 招聘者 prospective employer; person advertising a job; recruiter
- 玩花招 to play tricks
- 招生 to recruit new students
- 招认(招認) to confess
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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
- 卷八 本紀第八: 世祖五 Volume 8 Annals 8: Shizu 5 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 20
- 第一百十九回 Chapter 119 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 18
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
- 招麾 (招麾) 呂尚招麾殷民懷 — Xunzi 荀子, 成相篇第二十五 Chapter 25: Working Songs — 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