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劭

shào

Character

What 劭 means

1. stimulate to effort

Other readings

劭 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Shàosurname Shao

Words containing 劭

• 年高德劭nián gāo dé shàoto be advanced in both years and virtue (idiom)
• 柯劭忞Kē Shào mínKe Shaomin (1850-1933), scholar, author of New History of the Yuan Dynasty 新元史

Characters built on 召

These share the phonetic component 召 (zhào), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 超chāoto exceed; to overtake; to surpass
• 绍shàoto continue; to carry on
• 招zhāoto recruit; to provoke; to beckon
• 沼zhǎopond; pool
• 昭zhāobright; clear; manifest
• 邵Shàosurname Shao; place name
• 诏zhào(literary) to admonish; (bound form) imperial edict
• 韶sháo(literary) splendid; glorious

Sounds the same

Read shào, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 绍to continue; to carry on
• 哨a whistle; sentry
• 潲driving rain; to sprinkle
• 少young
• 稍used in 稍息
• 睄(colloquial) to glance
• 邵surname Shao; place name
• 卲surname Shao
• 召surname Shao; name of an ancient state that existed in what is now Shaanxi Province