招 zhāo
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- Made of
- 扌 hand 召 imperial decree
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
招标
zhāobiāo
to invite bids; to put out to tender
Characters in this word
标 biāo
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 市政府决定公开招标，以减少工程采购中的暗箱操作。 Shìzhèngfǔ juédìng gōngkāi zhāobiāo, yǐ jiǎnshǎo gōngchéng cǎigòu zhōng de ànxiāng cāozuò. The municipal government decided to invite public bids to reduce backroom dealing in project procurement.
- 这项工程已经公开招标，很多公司都想参加。 Zhè xiàng gōngchéng yǐjīng gōngkāi zhāobiāo, hěn duō gōngsī dōu xiǎng cānjiā. Bids for this project have already been publicly invited, and many companies want to take part.
- 学校新建图书馆的项目下周开始招标。 Xuéxiào xīn jiàn túshūguǎn de xiàngmù xiàzhōu kāishǐ zhāobiāo. The tender for the school's new library project starts next week.
Related words
- 招呼 zhāohu to greet
- 招生 zhāoshēng to enroll students
- 招手 zhāoshǒu to wave
- 招 zhāo to recruit, to attract
- 招待 zhāodài to entertain
- 招收 zhāoshōu to hire, to recruit
- 招揽 zhāolǎn to solicit; to attract; to canvass
- 招募 zhāomù to recruit; to enlist
- 招牌 zhāopai signboard; shop sign; signature feature
- 招商 zhāoshāng to attract business or investment
- 招数 zhāoshù move; trick; tactic
- 标题 biāotí title