诏 — Chinese character
诏
zhào
to proclaim, to decree; imperial decree
- Pinyin
- zhào
- Radical
- 149 ⾔ (Speech)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 讠 召
- Formation
- ideographic — To issue 讠 a decree 召; 召 also provides the pronunciation
- Traditional
- 詔
Common words with 诏
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 诏书 (詔書) | zhào shū | imperial edict |
| 诏令 (詔令) | zhào lìng | imperial order |
| 遗诏 (遺詔) | yí zhào | posthumous edict (of former emperor) |
| 矫诏 (矯詔) | jiǎo zhào | the pretense of acting on imperial order |
| 诏谕 (詔諭) | zhào yù | imperial decree |
| 密诏 (密詔) | mì zhào | secret imperial edict |
| 诏旨 (詔旨) | zhào zhǐ | imperial edict |
| 下诏 (下詔) | xià zhào | to hand down an imperial edict |
| 先帝遗诏 (先帝遺詔) | xiān dì yí zhào | posthumous edict of a former emperor; Liu Bei's 刘备 (Liú Bèi) edict to posterity |
| 奉诏 (奉詔) | fèng zhào | to receive an imperial command |
| 待诏 (待詔) | dài zhào | expert in a specialized field such as medicine, divination or chess, available on call to the emperor (in the Tang and Song dynasties) |
| 应诏 (應詔) | yìng zhào | to respond to an imperial decree |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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