招

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招 U+62DB, 招
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Translingual

Stroke order
8 strokes

Han character

招 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手尸竹口 (QSHR), four-corner 57062, composition ⿰扌召)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 427, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11968
  • Dae Jaweon: page 775, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1860, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+62DB

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 招

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 招
Warring States
Qin slip script
Characters in the same phonetic series (刀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
刀 *taːw
忉 *taːw
魛 *taːw
舠 *taːw
朷 *taːw, *moːɡ
叨 *tuːw, *l̥ʰaːw
倒 *taːwʔ, *taːws
到 *taːws
菿 *taːws, *rtaːwɢ
鞀 *deːw
鳭 *rteːw, *teːw
灱 *hreːw
菬 *sdew, *tjewʔ
超 *tʰew
怊 *tʰew, *tʰjew
欩 *tʰew
召 *dews, *djews
昭 *tjew
招 *tjew
鉊 *tjew
沼 *tjewʔ
照 *tjews
詔 *tjews
炤 *tjews
弨 *tʰjew, *tʰjewʔ
眧 *tʰjewʔ
韶 *djew
佋 *djew, *djewʔ
軺 *djew, *lew
玿 *djew
柖 *djew
紹 *djewʔ
袑 *djewʔ
綤 *djewʔ
邵 *djews
劭 *djews
卲 *djews
刁 *teːw
芀 *teːw, *deːw
貂 *teːw
蛁 *teːw
迢 *deːw
苕 *deːw
髫 *deːw
岧 *deːw

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tjew) : semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 召 (OC *dews, *djews) – to beckon with the hand.

Pronunciation 1

Note:
  • zhāor - “move, step; trick, device; poster, signboard”.
Note:
  • chiau - literary;
  • chio - vernacular.
    • (Teochew)
      • Peng'im: zio1 / ziê1 / ziao1 / ziou1
      • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsio / tsie / tsiau / tsiou
      • Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sio³³/, /t͡sie³³/, /t͡siau³³/, /t͡siou³³/
Note:
  • zio1/ziê1 - vernacular (ziê1 - Chaozhou);
  • ziao1/ziou1 - literary (ziou1 - Chaozhou).
Rime
Character 招
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 宵 (91)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 止遙切
Baxter tsyew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ɕiᴇu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡ɕiɛu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ɕjæu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ciaw/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ɕiɛu/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ɕĭɛu/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/t͡ɕi̯ɛu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhāo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ziu1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 招
Reading # 1/1
No. 2128
Phonetic
component 		刀
Rime
group 		宵
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		昭
Old
Chinese 		/*tjew/

Definitions

招

  1. to beckon; to gesture
  2. to recruit; to enlist; to enroll
  3. to incite; to incur; to court
  4. to cause; to provoke
  5. to tease; to flirt with
  6. to confess
  7. (dialectal) to infect; to be contagious; to be infectious
  8. (alt. form 著／着) Classifier for moves or blows (especially in martial arts).
  9. (alt. form 著／着) move; step (in chess or Go)
  10. (alt. form 著／着) (figuratively) trick; device
  11. † target
  12. † poster; signboard
  13. a surname
Synonyms
  • (to beckon):
  • (to recruit):
  • (to provoke):
  • (to tease):
  • (to confess):
  • (trick):

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

招

  1. † to raise
  2. † Used in 招木.

Pronunciation 3

Definitions

招

  1. † Alternative form of 韶 (sháo, “ancient music at the time of Emperor Shun”)
  2. † Used in 招搖／招摇 (sháoyáo).

References

Japanese

Kanji

招

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. beckon

Readings

  • Go-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)
  • Kun: まねく (maneku, 招く, Jōyō)、まねき (maneki)

Compounds

Compounds

Affix

Kanji in this term
招
しょう
Grade: 5
on'yomi

招(しょう) • (shō) 

  1. invitation; to invite

Korean

Hanja

招 • (cho, gyo) (hangeul 초, 교, revised cho, gyo, McCune–Reischauer ch'o, kyo, Yale cho, kyo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

招: Hán Nôm readings: chiêu, cheo, gieo, treo, chạo, chắp, chiu, giẹo, reo

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