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to call out to / to greet / to say hello to / to inform / to take care of / to take care that one does not
HSK 4
to enroll new students / to get students
HSK 5
to wave / to beckon
HSK 5
to invite applications for a job / to recruit
HSK 6
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  *招* | 招* | *招
to recruit / to provoke / to beckon / to incur / to infect / contagious / a move (chess) / a maneuver / device / trick / to confess
HSK 6
to hire / to recruit
HSK 7-9
to invite bids
HSK 7-9
to hold a reception; to offer hospitality; to entertain (guests); to serve (customers)
HSK 7-9
signboard / shop sign / reputation of a business
HSK 7-9
to recruit / to enlist
HSK 7-9
to attract (customers); to drum up (trade)
HSK 7-9
a reception / CL: 個|个,
HSK 7-9
move (in chess, on stage, in martial arts) / gambit / trick / scheme / movement / same as 著數|着数
HSK 7-9
invite the talented and call the valorous (idiom); to recruit talent
to seek investment or funding / investment promotion
share offer
to enlist enemy or rebel soldiers by offering amnesty
to recruit
to advertise an entrance examination for an academic institution (old)
to be infectious / to recruit
to call back the soul of sb who has died or is seriously ill / (fig.) to resurrect (an old system etc)
to recruit (followers) / to scout for (talent etc) / to incur / to lead to
admissions office (for enrolling students) (abbr. for 招生辦公室|招生办公室)
to advertise for the owner of lost property
to resist; to ward off; to hold one's own
to recruit employees
(martial arts) formalized move
to attract
to recruit soldiers
to ask for sb's surrender
poster / placard / bill
to invite the groom (who will live with the bride's family) / to take a wife by one's own choice
to rock back and forth / (fig.) to act ostentatiously / to brag / to show off
to flutter / to sway
to canvass (for customers) / to solicit / to recruit
lit. (of a flower) to attract bees and butterflies (idiom) / fig. to flirt
to court (trouble); to attract (attention) / to provoke (sb)
to confess
to call; to summon
(idiom) to parade oneself ostentatiously about town
Zhaoyuan, county-level city in Yantai 煙台|烟台, Shandong
move (in chess or martial arts)
maneki-neko or "lucky cat", Japanese figurine cat usually found at the entrance of shops, restaurants etc, believed to bring good fortune
picture poster (for advertising or propaganda)
to catch the wind / (fig.) to attract criticism because of one's prominence
to enlist enemy or rebel soldiers by offering amnesty / to bring to negotiated surrender
to have the groom move into the bride's house after marriage
to invite disaster
to recruit surrendered enemy and deserters (idiom); to gather together a gang of villains
to confess
(idiom) to bring trouble on oneself
lit. inviting wealth / We wish you success and riches (cf idiom 招財進寶|招财进宝)
recruitment meeting / job fair
to receive (guests, clients) / to interact socially with
to invite / to recruit / to attract / to entice
to ask for a beating
(of a sex worker) to solicit customers
prospectus (setting out a share offer)
to recruit / to take on (an employee)
investment promotion
to arouse animosity
signature dish / a restaurant’s most famous dish
signature move
charming / attractive / delightful
jug ears
prospective employer; job advertiser; recruiter
admissions officer; enrollment officer; college recruiter
fiddler crab (genus Uca)
service personnel: usher, waiter, receptionist, hostess etc
label / sticker
Zhaoyuan, county-level city in Yantai 煙台|烟台, Shandong
flag to attract departed spirits
to attract / to incur
lit. to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom) / fig. to raise an army; to recruit new staff
request bus stop
to hire a prostitute
guesthouse; hostel
bid inviting and bid offering / bidding / auction
(idiom) to dupe people by passing oneself off as a well-connected individual or a figure of authority
to advertise / to solicit business
(of a house or room) to be for rent
recruiting agency
prospectus
ushering in wealth and prosperity (idiom and traditional greeting, esp. at New Year); We wish you wealth and success!
to call on (people) to gather; to convene
flag to attract departed spirits


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