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招

Mandarin · pinyin zhāo

Meanings

  1. to recruit
  2. to provoke
  3. to beckon
  4. to incur
  5. to infect
  6. contagious
  7. a move (chess)
  8. a maneuver
  9. device
  10. trick
  11. to confess
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招
zhāo · beckon, summon; recruit, levy
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character

  1. to beckon; to gesture
  2. to recruit; to enlist; to enroll
  3. to incite; to incur; to court
  4. to cause; to provoke
  5. to tease; to flirt with
  6. to confess
  7. (dialectal) to infect; to be contagious; to be infectious
  8. (alt. form 著／着) Classifier for moves or blows (especially in martial arts).
  9. (alt. form 著／着) move; step (in chess or Go)
  10. (alt. form 著／着) (figuratively) trick; device
  11. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) target
  12. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) poster; signboard
  13. a surname

character

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to raise
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) used in 招木

character

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 韶 (sháo, “ancient music at the time of Emperor Shun”)
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) used in 招搖／招摇 (sháoyáo)

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