招手
zhāo​shǒu HSK5

to wave

招手 zhāo//shǒu
to wave verb + noun
To raise and move the hand to greet someone, say goodbye, or signal for someone to come closer; to beckon.

他招手示意服务生把账单送过来。

tā zhāo shǒu shì​yì fú​wù​shēng bǎ zhàng​dān sòng guò lai.

He beckoned to the waiter to bring the bill.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
2.33 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
3.64 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 5

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Synonym

Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)