She beckoned me to come in.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
招呼
to call out to
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to call out to
02
to greet
03
to say hello to
04
to inform
05
to take care of
06
to take care that one does not
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 招呼 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 招呼 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Tom said hi.
She greeted me with a big smile.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 招呼.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 招呼.
Directly before
- 打了个招呼2
- 我招呼1
- 她招呼1
- 过招呼1
Directly after
- 招呼我1
- 招呼吗1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 招呼
What does 招呼 mean in Chinese?
招呼 (zhāohu) means to call out to.
How do you pronounce 招呼?
招呼 is pronounced zhāohu.
Is 招呼 an HSK word?
招呼 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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