召 zhào
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 口 — mouth
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
召集
zhàojí
to convene; to call together
Characters in this word
集 jí
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 隹 — short-tailed bird
- Made of
- 隹 short-tailed bird 木 tree
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 事故发生后，市长立即召集相关部门讨论应急方案。 Shìgù fāshēng hòu, shìzhǎng lìjí zhàojí xiāngguān bùmén tǎolùn yìngjí fāng'àn. After the accident occurred, the mayor immediately convened the relevant departments to discuss an emergency plan.
- 老师召集全班同学开班会。 Lǎoshī zhàojí quán bān tóngxué kāi bānhuì. The teacher called together all the students in the class for a class meeting.
- 公司下周一召集各部门经理开会。 Gōngsī xià zhōuyī zhàojí gè bùmén jīnglǐ kāihuì. Next Monday the company will convene a meeting of the managers of every department.
Related words
- 召开 zhàokāi to hold; to call together
- 号召 hàozhào to call on; to urge
- 集体 jítǐ group
- 集中 jízhōng to concentrate
- 集合 jíhé to gather
- 集团 jítuán business group
- 收集 shōují to collect
- 采集 cǎijí to collect, to gather
- 聚集 jùjí to gather
- 密集 mìjí to concentrate; dense
- 搜集 sōují to collect
- 筹集 chóují to raise; to collect