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Mythic Mandarin

招牌 (zhāo pai): meaning and stroke order

招牌 (zhāo pai) means signboard, shop sign, reputation of a business.

招牌

Simplified
招牌
Traditional
招牌 (same form)
Pinyin
zhāo pai

Stroke order of 招牌

招

  • zhāo to recruit; to provoke
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

牌

  • pái signboard; plaque; plate; tablet (CL:塊|块[kuai4]); brand; trademark (CL:個|个[ge4])
  • 12 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 招牌

  1. zhāo pai
    • signboard
    • shop sign
    • reputation of a business

Radicals of the characters

招
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 8 strokes · 扌 on the left, 召 on the right
牌
Radical 片 (Kangxi radical 91) · 12 strokes · 片 on the left, 卑 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.

招牌 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 龙王心想：下雨是我管的，你怎么可能比我清楚？于是和他打赌，输的人要砸了招牌。

    Lóngwáng xīn xiǎng xiàyǔ shì wǒ guǎn de nǐ zěnme kěnéng bǐ wǒ qīngchu yúshì hé tā dǎdǔ shū de rén yào zá le zhāopai

    The Dragon King thought: rain is my business; how could you know better than me? So he made a bet with him: the loser would have his signboard smashed.

    From the story The Dragon King of the Jing River HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 招牌

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).