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肇

zhào

Character

What 肇 means

1. at first
2. devise
3. originate

Example sentences

• 上海以前有许多小河浜，其中有肇家浜、洋泾浜，现在都被填了。
  Shànghǎi yǐqián yǒu xǔduō xiǎohé bāng, qízhōng yǒu zhào jiā bāng, yáng Jīng bāng, xiànzài dōu bèi tián le.
  There used to be a lot of small creeks in old time Shanghai, which included Zhaojia Creek and Yangjing Creek, but they're all covered up nowadays.

Words starting with 肇

• 肇事zhào shìto cause an accident; to be responsible for an incident; to provoke a disturbance
• 肇事者zhào shì zhěoffender; culprit
• 肇因zhào yīncause; origin
• 肇始zhào shǐto initiate; to start; the start
• 肇建zhào jiàn(literary) to establish; to found (a country etc); to initiate construction…
• 肇祸zhào huòto cause an accident
• 肇端zhào duānthe starting point
• 肇俊哲Zhào Jùn zhéZhao Junzhe (1979-), Chinese football player
• 肇州县Zhào zhōu XiànZhaozhou, a county in Daqing City 大庆市
• 肇庆市Zhào qìng ShìZhaoqing, prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province 广东省
• 肇东市Zhào dōng ShìZhaodong, a county-level city in Suihua City 绥化市
• 肇源县Zhào yuán XiànZhaoyuan, a county in Daqing City 大庆市
• 肇事逃逸zhào shì táo yìhit-and-run
• 肇庆大学Zhào qìng Dà xuéZhaoqing University (Guangdong)
• 肇庆Zhào qìngsee 肇庆市
• 肇州Zhào zhōusee 肇州县
• 肇东Zhào dōngsee 肇东市
• 肇源Zhào yuánsee 肇源县

Words containing 肇

• 李肇星Lǐ Zhào xīngLi Zhaoxing (1940-), former PRC foreign minister
• 丁肇中Dīng Zhào zhōngSamuel C. C. Ting (1936-), American physicist, 1976 Nobel Prize laureate in physics
• 交通肇事罪jiāo tōng zhào shì zuìculpable driving causing serious damage or injury

Characters that look like 肇

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

• 楚chǔdistinct; clear; orderly
• 誉yùto praise; to acclaim; reputation
• 僚liáobureaucrat; colleague
• 赘zhuì(bound form) superfluous; (bound form) (of a man) to move into the household of one's…
• 镂lòuto engrave; to carve; hard steel
• 樊fán(literary) fence

Sounds the same

Read zhào, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 照according to; in accordance with; to shine
• 召to call together; to summon; to convene
• 罩to cover; to spread over; a cover; a shade; a hood; bamboo fish trap
• 兆(bound form) omen; to foretell; million; mega-
• 赵to surpass (old)
• 诏(literary) to admonish; (bound form) imperial edict
• 棹oar (archaic); scull; paddle
• 笊loosely woven bamboo ladle
• 曌name invented for herself by Tang empress Wu Zetian 武则天
• 啅chirp
• 垗sacrifice
• 旐banner