| zhāo | to recruit/to provoke/to beckon/to incur/to infect/contagious/a move (chess)/a maneuver/device/trick/to confess |
| 招 | to recruit to provoke to beckon |
| 招事 | bring trouble on oneself |
| 招亲 | to invite the groom (who will live with the bride's family) to take a wife by one's own choice |
| 招人 | to be infectious to recruit |
| 招人喜欢 | charming attractive delightful |
| 招供 | to confess |
| 招兵 | recruit soldiers |
| 招兵买马 | to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom); to raise a large army fig. to expand business to recruit new staff |
| 招办 | enrollment office |
| 招势 | Now generally written as "招式". |
| 招募 | to recruit to enlist |
| 招呼 | to call out to sb to greet sb to inform sb |
| 招呼站 | request bus stop |
| 招唤 | summon; call |
| 招商 | to seek investment or funding investment promotion |
| 招商引资 | investment promotion |
| 招女婿 | take a man into the family as a son-in-law |
| 招安 | to enlist enemy or rebel soldiers by offering amnesty |
| 招展 | to flutter to sway |
| 招工 | recruitment |