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钊

zhāo

Character Traditional 釗

What 钊 means

1. to encourage
2. to cut
3. to strain

Words containing 钊

• 李大钊Lǐ Dà zhāoLi Dazhao (1889-1927), early Chinese Marxist and founding member of the communist party
• 章士钊Zhāng Shì zhāoZhang Shizhao (1881-1973), revolutionary journalist in Shanghai, then established writer

Characters that look like 钊

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

• 制zhìsystem; to control; to regulate
• 则zé(literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then…
• 刺cìthorn; sting; thrust
• 圳zhèn(dialect) drainage ditch between fields (Taiwan pr. zùn); used in place names, notably 深圳
• 刮guāto scrape; to blow; to shave
• 刹chàBuddhist monastery, temple or shrine (abbr. for 刹多罗

Sounds the same

Read zhāo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 朝morning
• 招to recruit; to provoke; to beckon
• 昭bright; clear; manifest
• 嘲used in 嘲哳
• 着a move in chess (Taiwan pr. zhuó); trick; tactic; (dialect) okay; all right
• 啁used in 啁哳; Taiwan pr. zhōu
• 皽(literary) dead skin cells on the surface of the skin; Taiwan pr. zhǎn
• 𬬿sickle
• 駋(horse)