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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 wave / to beckon
HSK 5
to enroll new students / to get students
HSK 5
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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 invite applications for a job / to recruit
HSK 6
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
to invite bids
HSK 7-9
to hold a reception; to offer hospitality; to entertain (guests); to serve (customers)
HSK 7-9
move (in chess, on stage, in martial arts) / gambit / trick / scheme / movement / same as 著數|着数
HSK 7-9
to hire / to recruit
HSK 7-9
a reception / CL: 個|个,
HSK 7-9
(martial arts) formalized move
to call on (people) to gather; to convene
(of a sex worker) to solicit customers
to rock back and forth / (fig.) to act ostentatiously / to brag / to show off
to recruit (followers) / to scout for (talent etc) / to incur / to lead to
to court (trouble); to attract (attention) / to provoke (sb)
(of a house or room) to be for rent
to call; to summon
to invite disaster
to advertise for the owner of lost property
ushering in wealth and prosperity (idiom and traditional greeting, esp. at New Year); We wish you wealth and success!
invite the talented and call the valorous (idiom); to recruit talent
to advertise an entrance examination for an academic institution (old)
to confess
guesthouse; hostel
to resist; to ward off; to hold one's own
lit. to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom) / fig. to raise an army; to recruit new staff
signature dish / a restaurant’s most famous dish
Zhaoyuan, county-level city in Yantai 煙台|烟台, Shandong
picture poster (for advertising or propaganda)
to canvass (for customers) / to solicit / to recruit
to ask for a beating
to invite the groom (who will live with the bride's family) / to take a wife by one's own choice
to arouse animosity
to have the groom move into the bride's house after marriage
(idiom) to dupe people by passing oneself off as a well-connected individual or a figure of authority
request bus stop
to be infectious / to recruit
poster / placard / bill
(idiom) to parade oneself ostentatiously about town
to call back the soul of sb who has died or is seriously ill / (fig.) to resurrect (an old system etc)
to enlist enemy or rebel soldiers by offering amnesty / to bring to negotiated surrender
to catch the wind / (fig.) to attract criticism because of one's prominence
Zhaoyuan, county-level city in Yantai 煙台|烟台, Shandong
to recruit surrendered enemy and deserters (idiom); to gather together a gang of villains
service personnel: usher, waiter, receptionist, hostess etc
share offer
to ask for sb's surrender
to confess
jug ears
lit. inviting wealth / We wish you success and riches (cf idiom 招財進寶|招财进宝)
to recruit soldiers
to recruit employees
to attract / to incur
to flutter / to sway
to enlist enemy or rebel soldiers by offering amnesty
to attract
flag to attract departed spirits
(idiom) to bring trouble on oneself
to seek investment or funding / investment promotion
to recruit / to take on (an employee)
to hire a prostitute
lit. (of a flower) to attract bees and butterflies (idiom) / fig. to flirt
to recruit
to invite / to recruit / to attract / to entice
maneki-neko or "lucky cat", Japanese figurine cat usually found at the entrance of shops, restaurants etc, believed to bring good fortune
signature move
to receive (guests, clients) / to interact socially with
recruiting agency
charming / attractive / delightful
move (in chess or martial arts)
prospectus (setting out a share offer)
fiddler crab (genus Uca)
prospective employer; job advertiser; recruiter
prospectus
flag to attract departed spirits
investment promotion
bid inviting and bid offering / bidding / auction
to advertise / to solicit business
label / sticker
admissions officer; enrollment officer; college recruiter
recruiting coordinator
recruitment meeting / job fair


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