招
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to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 手 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 招
- Common rank
- #683
- Unicode
- U+62DB
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Formation & memory
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How 招 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A call 召 to arms 扌; 召 also provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
beckon · Heisig RSH #592
fingers + 召 summon
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 招
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不打自招 | to confess without being pressed; to make a confession without duress | |
| 树大招风 | lit. a tall tree attracts the wind (idiom); fig. a famous or rich person attracts criticis… | |
| 统一招生 | national unified entrance exam | |
| 普通高等学校招生全国统一考试 | NCEE, National College Entrance Examination (college entrance exam in PRC); usually abbr. … | |
| 招生官 | admissions officer; enrollment officer; college recruiter | |
| 招人 | to recruit; to hire people | |
| 中招 | senior high school enrollment | |
| 中招 | (martial arts) to get hit; to get taken down; (fig.) to get infected (disease or computer … | |
| 招生 | to enroll new students; to get students | |
| 招远市 | Zhaoyuan, a county-level city in Yantai City 煙台市|烟台市[Yan1 tai2 Shi4], Shandong | |
| 花招 | trick; maneuver; razzle-dazzle; (martial arts) fancy move; flourish | |
| 招安 | to enlist enemy or rebel soldiers by offering amnesty | |
| 招手 | to wave; to beckon | |
| 高招 | wise move; masterstroke; bright ideas | |
| 招法 | move (in chess or martial arts) | |
| 招风耳 | jug ears | |
| 出招 | to make a move (in martial arts or figuratively) | |
| 招数 | move (in chess, on stage, in martial arts); gambit; trick; scheme; movement; same as 著數|着数… | |
| 招风 | to catch the wind; (fig.) to attract criticism because of one's prominence | |
| 招牌动作 | signature move |