HSK 6 · Society

号召 hàozhào “to call on” in Chinese

Traditional 號召

What 号召 means

  1. to call on
  2. to appeal
  3. call

How to say 号召

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale号hào4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale召zhào4th tone, falling

号召 in a sentence

  1. 学校号召大家节约用水。

    Xuéxiào hàozhào dàjiā jiéyuē yòng shuǐ.

    The school is calling on everyone to save water.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 在老师的号召下，同学们都参加了植树活动。

    Zài lǎoshī de hàozhào xià, tóngxuémen dōu cānjiā le zhíshù huódòng.

    At the teacher’s call, all the students joined in planting trees.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 号召 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 号 (hào) with each of its parts in a different colour
号hàoto call out; to command
  • 口mouth · kǒuMeaning part
  • 丂part of the characterSound part
The character 召 (zhào) with each of its parts in a different colour
召zhàoto call together
  • 刀knife · dāoSound part
  • 口mouth · kǒuMeaning part

口 hints at the meaning (mouth); 刀 (dāo) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhào.

How to write 号召

号 5 strokes · 召 5 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

号召 (hàozhào) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 号召 (hàozhào). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 号召

Words with 号

号hào · number号码hàomǎ · number挂号guàhào · to register (at a hospital)信号xìnhào · signal称号chēnghào · title符号fúhào · symbol

Words with 召

召开zhàokāi · to convene (a conference or meeting)

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FAQs

号召 (hàozhào) means “to call on” or “to appeal”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it hàozhào: hào with a 4th tone, then zhào with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 号召 is written 號召. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type haozhao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 号召 from the suggestions. Typing haozhao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
号召 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.