诏
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(literary) to admonish; (bound form) imperial edict
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 言 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 詔
- Common rank
- #2,574
- Unicode
- U+8BCF
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How 诏 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
To issue 讠 a decree 召; 召 also provides the pronunciation
Words with 诏
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 诏安县 | Zhao'an, a county in Zhangzhou City 漳州市[Zhang1 zhou1 Shi4], Fujian | |
| 南诏国 | Nanzhao, 8th and 9th century kingdom in Yunnan, at times allied with Tang against Tibetan … | |
| 先帝遗诏 | posthumous edict of a former emperor; Liu Bei's 劉備|刘备[Liu2 Bei4] edict to posterity | |
| 诏安 | see 詔安縣|诏安县[Zhao4 an1 Xian4] | |
| 下诏 | to hand down an imperial edict | |
| 南诏 | Nanzhao kingdom 738-937 in southwest China and southeast Asia | |
| 诏书 | imperial edict | |
| 应诏 | to respond to an imperial decree | |
| 密诏 | secret imperial edict | |
| 诏令 | imperial order | |
| 遗诏 | posthumous edict (of former emperor) | |
| 待诏 | expert in a specialized field such as medicine, divination or chess, available on call to … | |
| 奉诏 | to receive an imperial command | |
| 诏狱 | imperial prison (for prisoners detained by order of the emperor) | |
| 矫诏 | the pretense of acting on imperial order | |
| 诏旨 | imperial edict | |
| 诏谕 | imperial decree |