招 (zhāo): meaning and stroke order
招 (zhāo) means to recruit, to provoke, to beckon, to incur, to infect, contagious, a move (chess).
招
- Simplified
- 招
- Traditional
- 招 (same form)
- Pinyin
- zhāo
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Stroke order of 招
招
- zhāo to recruit; to provoke
- 8 strokes
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Meaning of 招
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zhāo
- to recruit
- to provoke
- to beckon
- to incur
- to infect
- contagious
- a move (chess)
- a maneuver
- device
- trick
- to confess
Radical and structure
- 招
- Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 8 strokes · 扌 on the left, 召 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 招
- 招手 zhāo shǒu to wave; to beckon
- 招牌 zhāo pai signboard; shop sign
- 招聘 zhāo pìn to invite applications for a job; to recruit
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).