召 zhào
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 口 — mouth
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
召开
zhàokāi
to hold; to call together
Characters in this word
开 kāi
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 廾 — two hands
- Made of
- 一 one 廾 two hands
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 学校召开会议。 Xuéxiào zhàokāi huìyì. The school holds a meeting.
- 明天召开大会。 Míngtiān zhàokāi dàhuì. A big meeting is held tomorrow.
- 我们召开班会。 Wǒmen zhàokāi bānhuì. We hold a class meeting.
Related words
- 号召 hàozhào to call on; to urge
- 打开 dǎkāi to open, to turn on
- 开 kāi to open; to drive; to turn on
- 开车 kāichē to drive a car
- 开会 kāihuì to have a meeting
- 开玩笑 kāiwánxiào to joke
- 分开 fēnkāi to separate; to part
- 开机 kāijī to turn on a device
- 开心 kāixīn happy
- 开学 kāixué to start school
- 离开 líkāi to leave
- 走开 zǒukāi to go away