昭

zhāo

#2,185 most

frequent character

bright, clear, manifest

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

昭 zhāo has 日 sun as picture part and 召 zhào as sound part. Sunlight gives original 'light, bright'; later it grew to 'clear, obvious.'

昭 as a component in other characters

meaning1 character

sound1 character

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Homophones

recruit, trick, attract, beckon

trick, tactic, (dialect) okay

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