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绍

shào

HSK 2 Character Traditional 紹

What 绍 means

1. to continue
2. to carry on

Other readings

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

• Shàosurname Shao

Example sentences

• 我介绍一下。
  Let me introduce it.
• 请介绍自己。
  Please introduce yourselves.
• 请介绍一下自己。
  Please introduce yourself.
• 请自我介绍一下。
  Please introduce yourself.
• 我可以自我介绍吗?
  May I introduce myself?
• 让我把你介绍给他。
  Let me introduce you to him.

Words starting with 绍

• 绍兴市Shào xīng ShìShaoxing, prefecture-level city in Zhejiang Province 浙江省
• 绍兴酒Shào xīng jiǔShaoxing wine a.k.a. "yellow wine", traditional Chinese wine made from glutinous rice and…
• 绍莫吉州Shào mò jí ZhōuSomogy, a county in southwest Hungary, capital 考波什堡
• 绍兴Shào xīngsee 绍兴市

Words containing 绍

• 介绍jiè shàoto introduce (sb to sb); to give a presentation; to present (sb for a job etc)
• 介绍信jiè shào xìnletter of introduction; recommendation letter; reference
• 袁绍Yuán ShàoYuan Shao (153-202), general during late Han, subsequently warlord
• 比绍Bǐ shàoBissau, capital of Guinea-Bissau
• 简要介绍jiǎn yào jiè shàobrief introduction
• 自我介绍zì wǒ jiè shàoself-introduction; to introduce oneself
• 几内亚比绍Jǐ nèi yà Bǐ shàoGuinea-Bissau
• 马绍尔群岛Mǎ shào ěr Qún dǎoMarshall Islands
• 简短介绍jiǎn duǎn jiè shàobrief introduction
• 陈绍chén shàoaged Shaoxing wine (abbr. for 陈年绍兴酒
• 婚姻介绍所hūn yīn jiè shào suǒmarriage agency
• 唐绍仪Táng Shào yíTang Shaoyi (1862-1939), politician and diplomat
• 克绍箕裘kè shào jī qiúto follow in one's father's footsteps

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
• 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
• 劭shàostimulate to effort

Characters that look like 绍

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 组zǔto form; to organize; group
• 招zhāoto recruit; to provoke; to beckon
• 绘huìto draw; to paint; to depict; to portray
• 矩jǔcarpenter's square; rule; regulation
• 栅zhàfence; also pr. shān
• 骇hàito astonish; to startle; to hack (computing, loanword)

Sounds the same

Read shào, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 哨a whistle; sentry
• 潲driving rain; to sprinkle
• 少young
• 稍used in 稍息
• 劭stimulate to effort
• 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