zhāo

  1. zhāo verb to beckon; to hail
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '招' v 1; Kroll 2015 '招' 1, p. 594; Mathews 1931 '招', p. 27; Unihan '招'; XHZD '招' 1, p. 958)
  2. zhāo verb to welcome
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: As in 招待 (Mathews 1931 '招', p. 27)
  3. zhāo verb to recruit; to levy
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: For example, 招生 recruit students (Guoyu '招' v 2; Kroll 2015 '招' 1a, p. 594; Mathews 1931 '招', p. 27; Unihan '招'; XHZD '招' 2, p. 959)
  4. zhāo verb to arouse; to attract; to provoke; to cause
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of逗, 惹, or 引; for example, 招惹 provoke (Guoyu '招' v 3; Kroll 2015 '招' 1a, p. 594; Mathews 1931 '招', p. 27; Wu and Tee 2015, loc. 2510)
  5. zhāo verb to infect
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Dialect
    Notes: Beijing dialect (Guoyu '招' v 4)
  6. zhāo verb to admit [to an offense]; to confess
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 承认; as in 招认 confess; for example, the idiom 不打自招 confess on one's own, without being beaten (Guoyu '招' v 5; Kroll 2015 '招' 4, p. 594; Mathews 1931 '招', p. 27; XHZD '招' 3, p. 959)
  7. zhāo verb to appoint
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 进用 (Guoyu '招' v 6)
  8. zhāo verb for a husband to live with his wife's family
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 入贅 (Guoyu '招' v 7)
  9. zhāo verb to seek
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 寻找 (Guoyu '招' v 8)
  10. zhāo noun a target
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 箭靶 (Guoyu '招' n 1; Kroll 2015 '招' 2, p. 594; Mathews 1931 '招', p. 28)
  11. zhāo noun a martial arts technique; a trick
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 武技; for example, 绝招 masterstroke (Guoyu '招' n 2; XHZD '招' 4, p. 959)
  12. zhāo noun a prominent sign
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: For example, 市招 shop sign (Guoyu '招' n 3; Mathews 1931 '招', p. 27)
  13. zhāo measure word a measure word for techniques or plans
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '招' n 4)
  14. qiáo verb to disclose; to reveal; to make public
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 揭发 (Guoyu '招' qiáo v; Kroll 2015 '招' 5, p. 594; )
  15. sháo noun a musical tune
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '招' sháo n)
  16. zhāo verb to tie somebody by the legs
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '招' 3, p. 594; Mathews 1931 '招', p. 28)
  17. zhāo noun a monastic compound
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '招' 6, p. 594)

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