Chinese symbol for “convene”
召开
zhào kāi
Traditional: 召開
to convene (a conference or meeting); to convoke; to call together
The closest CC-CEDICT match for convene is 召开 (zhào kāi), defined as: to convene (a conference or meeting); to convoke; to call together.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “convene”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 召集 | zhào jí | to convene; to call together |
| 招集 | zhāo jí | to call on (people) to gather; to convene |
| 召 | zhào | to call together; to summon |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 召开.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 号召 (號召) | hào zhào | to call; to appeal |
| 召集 | zhào jí | to convene; to call together |
| 召唤 (召喚) | zhào huàn | to summon; to beckon |
| 召回 | zhào huí | to recall (a product, an ambassador etc) |
| 征召 (徵召) | zhēng zhào | to enlist; to draft |
| 开始 (開始) | kāi shǐ | to begin; to start; beginning; start |
| 开发 (開發) | kāi fā | to exploit (a resource); to open up (for development); to develop |
| 离开 (離開) | lí kāi | to depart; to leave |
See also: Japanese symbol for “convene”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.