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召开

zhào kāi

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 召開

召开 (zhào kāi) means "to convene (a meeting)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 召开 means

1. to convene (a conference or meeting)
2. to convoke
3. to call together

The characters in 召开

• 召zhàoto call together; to summon; to convene
• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…

Example sentences

• 会议将在下周日召开。
  Huìyì jiāng zàixià Zhōurì zhàokāi.
  The meeting will take place next Sunday.
• 委员会一个月召开两次。
  Wěiyuánhuì yī gè yuè zhàokāi liǎng cì.
  The committee meets twice a month.
• 那么首先我们应该召开一次家庭会议。
  Nàme shǒuxiān wǒmen yīnggāi zhàokāi yīcì jiātíng huìyì.
  In that case we should start by having a family meeting.
• 那幺首先我们应该召开一次家庭会议。
  In that case we should start by having a family meeting.

Where 召开 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Requests, Celebration & Hosting (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhào kāi correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.