HSK 5 · Verbs

召开 zhàokāi “to convene (a conference or meeting)” in Chinese

Traditional 召開

What 召开 means

  1. to convene (a conference or meeting)
  2. to convoke
  3. to call together

How to say 召开

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale召zhào4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale开kāi1st tone, high and level

召开 in a sentence

  1. 会议将在下周日召开。

    Huìyì jiāng zài xià zhōurì zhàokāi.

    The meeting will take place next Sunday.

    Sentence #1394839 from Tatoeba

  2. 那么首先我们应该召开一次家庭会议。

    Nàme shǒuxiān wǒmen yīnggāi zhàokāi yí cì jiātíng huìyì.

    In that case, we should start by holding a family meeting.

    Sentence #2307213 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 委员会一个月召开两次。

    Wěiyuánhuì yí ge yuè zhàokāi liǎng cì.

    The committee meets twice a month.

    Sentence #1501760 from Tatoeba

How 召开 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 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.

The character 开 (kāi) with each of its parts in a different colour
开kāito open
  • 一one · yī
  • 廾two hands · gǒng

Memory aidSimplified from 開: two hands lifting the bar of a gate 門: to open.

How to write 召开

召 5 strokes · 开 4 strokes

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

Words related to 召开

Words with 召

号召hàozhào · to call on

Words with 开

开kāi · to open开车kāichē · to drive a car开始kāishǐ · to begin开学kāixué · to start a new school term打开dǎkāi · to open离开líkāi · leave开会kāihuì · to have a meeting开花kāihuā · to bloom分开fēnkāi · to separate开机kāijī · to switch on (a device)

More words: Common Verbs

展开zhǎnkāi · to unfold掌握zhǎngwò · to master招待zhāodài · to hold a reception着火zháohuǒ · to catch fire针对zhēnduì · to target振动zhèndòng · to vibrate争取zhēngqǔ · to fight for睁zhēng · to open (one’s eyes)

FAQs

召开 (zhàokāi) means “to convene (a conference or meeting)” or “to convoke”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it zhàokāi: zhào with a 4th tone, then kāi with a 1st 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, 召开 is written 召開. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhaokai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 召开 from the suggestions. Typing zhaokai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
召开 is an HSK 5 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 from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.