招

招 U+62DB, 招 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-62DB ← 拚 [U+62DA] CJK Unified Ideographs 拜 → [U+62DC]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

1. beckon, summon
2. recruit, levy

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		招

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (刀) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
刀	*taːw
忉	*taːw
鱽	*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, OC *tjew): semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 召 (OC *dews, *djews) – to beckon with the hand.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhāo, qiáo (zhao¹, qiao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄠ, ㄑㄧㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ziu¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chêu
• Min Nan (POJ): chiau / chio

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄠ
    • Wade-Giles: chao¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jau
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
    • 
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: qiáo
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄠˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'iao²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyau
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɑʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ziu¹
    • Yale: jīu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dziu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: jiu¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡siːu̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chêu
    • Hakka Romanization System: zeu´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zeu¹
    • IPA: /t͡se̯u²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiau
    • Tâi-lô: tsiau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciaw
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕiaʊ³³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕiaʊ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕiaʊ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕiaʊ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiaʊ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chio
    • Tâi-lô: tsio
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cioy
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕio³³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕio⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕiɤ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕio⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕio⁴⁴/

Note:

• chiau - literary;
• chio - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡ɕiᴇu/▼

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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiᴇu/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiɛu/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕjæu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ciaw/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiɛu/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭɛu/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ɛu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhāo

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjew/

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
2. to recruit
3. classifier for moves or blows (especially in martial arts)

Compounds

• 招呼 (zhāohū)

• 招牌 (zhāopái)

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Japanese

Kanji

招

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. beckon

Readings

• Goon: しょう (shō)
• Kan’on: しょう (shō)
• Kun: まねく (maneku), まねき (maneki)

Compounds

Compounds

• 招来 (しょうらい) (shōrai)

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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 (chiêu, cheo, gieo, treo, chạo, chắp, chiu, giẹo, reo)

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