召
zhàoShào HSK4

summon

召 zhào frequency
summon verb
to call together, summon, or convene people for a purpose

公司紧急召他回去处理突发状况。

gōng​sī jǐn​jí zhào tā huí​qu chǔ​lǐ tū​fā zhuàng​kuàng.

The company urgently summoned him back to handle an emergency.

temple noun
a temple or monastery, used specifically in place names in Inner Mongolia

去呼和浩特旅游时，一定不能错过著名的大召。

qù Hū​hé​hào​tè lǚ​yóu shí, yī​dìng bù néng cuò​guò zhù​míng de Dà​zhào.

When traveling to Hohhot, you must not miss the famous Dazhao Temple.

召 Shào
Shao proper name
Chinese surname

召先生是这里的负责人。

Shào xiān​sheng shì zhè​lǐ de fù​zé​rén.

Mr. Shao is the person in charge here.

Shao state place name
name of an ancient state that existed in what is now Shaanxi Province

这个博物馆展出了许多召国的文物。

zhè gè bó​wù​guǎn zhǎn​chū le xǔ​duō Shào​guó de wén​wù.

This museum exhibits many cultural relics from the State of Zhao.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,214th most common 109.0 per million
Movie subtitles
1,672nd most common 33.0 per million appears in 16% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
8.70 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
7.69 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+53EC

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)