召 (zhào)
to convene/to call together
How 召 is written
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 刀 — knife
- Traditional
- 召
- Simplified
- 召 (unchanged)
召 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- shào
- surname Shao; name of an ancient state that existed in what is now Shaanxi Province
- zhào
- to call together; to summon; to convene; temple or monastery (used in place names in Inner Mongolia)
Common words using 召
- 召喚 zhàohuàn
- to summon; to beckon; to call
- 召開 zhàokāi
- to convene (a conference or meeting); to convoke; to call together
- 南召 nánzhào
- Nanzhao county in Nanyang 南陽|南阳[Nan2 yang2], Henan
- 召回 zhàohuí
- to recall (a product, an ambassador etc)
- 召見 zhàojiàn
- call in (one's subordinates); summon (an envoy of a foreign country) to an interview
- 召集 zhàojí
- to convene; to gather
- 呼召 hūzhào
- to call (to do something)
- 徵召 zhēngzhào
- to enlist; to draft; to conscript
- 感召 gǎnzhào
- to rally; to call; to move and inspire
- 感召力 gǎnzhàolì
- inspiration; the power to inspire
- 應召 yìngzhào
- to respond to a call
- 號召 hàozhào
- to call; to appeal
召 in a sentence
經理召開了一個緊急會議。
Jīnglǐ zhàokāile yí ge jǐnjí huìyì.
“The manager convened an emergency meeting.”
How common is 召?
召 is the 1,212th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 92% of all running text.
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