邀
yāo HSK5

invite

邀 yāo
invite verb
to invite or request someone to come or participate

既然今天天气这么好，我邀你一起去公园散步吧。

jì​rán jīn​tiān tiān​qì zhè​me hǎo, wǒ yāo nǐ yī​qǐ qù gōng​yuán sàn​bù ba.

Since the weather is so nice today, I'd like to invite you for a walk in the park.

intercept verb
to waylay, intercept, or stop something or someone in transit

他在半路邀住我，问了我半天话。

tā zài bàn​lù yāo zhù wǒ, wèn le wǒ bàn​tiān huà.

He stopped me halfway and questioned me for a long time.

seek verb
to solicit or seek for personal gain or favor

他总是想方设法在领导面前邀功。

tā zǒng​shì xiǎng​fāng​shè​fǎ zài lǐng​dǎo miàn​qián yāo​gōng.

He is always trying to take credit in front of the management.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,854th most common 43.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,251st most common 65.5 per million appears in 27% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
6.71 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
15.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
16
Unicode
U+9080

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