招
zhāoqiáosháo HSK4

beckon

招 zhāo frequency
to beckon verb
to beckon or signal with the hand; to wave over; to call someone over by making a gesture

她上飞机前，给我招了招手。

tā shàng fēi​jī qián, gěi wǒ zhāo le zhāo shǒu.

She waved at me before she got on board the plane.

to recruit verb
to recruit; to enlist; to invite applications or bids; to seek to attract people for a purpose through public notice or advertisement

你正在招室友，是吗？

nǐ zhèng​zài zhāo shì​yǒu, shì ma?

You're looking for a roommate, right?

trick noun
a move in chess or martial arts; a trick; a device; a method or maneuver

这招已经用过了。

zhè zhāo yǐ​jing yòng guo le.

This trick has been used already.

to incur verbparticle
to incur; to attract; to lead to a certain result or reaction
shop sign noun
(literary) a flag, sign, or banner used as a trademark or advertisement outside a shop or restaurant
to provoke verb
to provoke; to tease; to annoy; to mess with someone
to confess
to confess to a crime; to admit guilt
surname
a Chinese surname
target
(archaic) a target; a bullseye in archery
to infect
(dialect) to be contagious; to infect
classifier for moves
[classifier] for tricks, devices, or moves in chess, martial arts, etc.
to take in a son-in-law
to take in a son-in-law to live with the bride's family
招 qiáo
to expose
(archaic) to expose; to reveal; to denounce or point out someone's faults
招 sháo
[name of music]
(archaic) an ancient name for the ritual music associated with Emperor Shun

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Frequency
Character
Written text
941st most common 178.9 per million
Movie subtitles
952nd most common 114.0 per million appears in 47% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
50.3 per million appears in 19% of films
Written text
92.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+62DB

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