招 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: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '招' 6, p. 594)
18. zhāo verb to cause to come forth; nirvṛt
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: nirvṛt, Japanese: shou, or: kyou (BCSD '招', p. 543; MW 'nirvṛt'; SH '招', p. 260; Unihan '招')

Also contained in

点头招呼 、 招商引资 、 假招子 、 承招 、 招权纳贿 、 招人 、 招摇撞骗 、 招揽 、 招降 、 招降纳叛 、 招损 、 招灾 、 招贴画 、 招财猫 、 绝招 、 延聘招揽 、 大招 、 招兵 、 欢招 、 招人喜欢 、 迎风招展 、 出招 、 招风耳 、 招兵买马 、 招牌 、 招股 、 招投标 、 招法 、 招架 、 招讨使 、 招牌菜 、 招刺 、 招罪 、 招工 、 见招拆招 、 招标 、 招股说明书 、 招寻 、 树大招风 、 统一招生 、 满招损，谦受益 、 招租 、 玩花招 、 招考 、 目挑心招 、 招摇过市 、 招财进宝 、 招领 、 招认 、 招唤 、 招集

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Truncated for common words

• Scroll 2 Mūlasarvāstivādavinayakārikā (Genben Shuo Yiqie You Bu Pi Nai Ye Song) 根本說一切有部毘奈耶頌 — count: 66
• Scroll 9 Xin Huayan Jing Lun 新華嚴經論 — count: 49
• Scroll 2 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 四分律行事鈔資持記 — count: 44
• Scroll 3 Commentary on the Abhidharmakośabhāṣya 俱舍論疏 — count: 34
• Scroll 8 Notes on the Meaning of the Śūraṅgama Sūtra 首楞嚴義疏注經 — count: 27
• Scroll 2 Commentary on the Yogācārabhūmiśāstra 瑜伽論記 — count: 25
• Scroll 33 Abhidharmanyāyānusāraśāstra (Apidamo Shun Zheng Lilun) 阿毘達磨順正理論 — count: 24
• Scroll 126 Abhidharmamahāvibhāṣaśāstra (Apidamo Dapiposha Lun) 阿毘達磨大毘婆沙論 — count: 24
• Scroll 2 Cheng Weishi Lun Yan Mi 成唯識論演祕 — count: 22
• Scroll 1 Mūlasarvāstivādavinayakārikā (Genben Shuo Yiqie You Bu Pi Nai Ye Song) 根本說一切有部毘奈耶頌 — count: 22

Collocations

• 招提 (招提) 汝可以此園施佛為首及招提僧 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 2 — count: 38
• 能招 (能招) 能招未來有 — Saṃyuktāgama 雜阿含經, Scroll 15 — count: 15
• 招现 (招現) 能招現報 — An Alternative Translation of the Saṃyukta Āgama (Saṁyukatāgamasūtra) 別譯雜阿含經, Scroll 4 — count: 9
• 招感 (招感) 戒德熏修所招感 — Dasheng Bensheng Xin Di Guan Jing 大乘本生心地觀經, Scroll 3 — count: 7
• 及招 (及招) 汝可以此園施佛為首及招提僧 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 2 — count: 6
• 法招 (法招) 增長惡法招現衰損 — The Large Sūtra on Perfection of Wisdom 大般若波羅蜜多經, Scroll 394 — count: 6
• 招患 (招患) 為身招患 — Fa Ju JIng (Dharmapada) 法句經, Scroll 1 — count: 5
• 施招 (施招) 復以一房舍施招提僧 — San Gui Wu Jie Ci Xin Yanli GongdeJing (Velāma) 三歸五戒慈心厭離功德經, Scroll 1 — count: 5
• 施与招 (施與招) 施與招提僧 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 60 — count: 4
• 返招 (返招) 是人返招謗佛罪 — The Mahāyāna Sūtra on the Inconceivable Secrets of the Tathāgata (Rulai Bu Siyi Mimi Dasheng Jing) 佛說如來不思議祕密大乘經, Scroll 6 — count: 4