Chinese symbol for “summon”
召唤
zhào huàn
Traditional: 召喚
to summon; to beckon; to call
The closest CC-CEDICT match for summon is 召唤 (zhào huàn), defined as: to summon; to beckon; to call.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “summon”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 传讯 (傳訊) | chuán xùn | (law) to summon (a witness); to subpoena; to arraign (an offender); (Tw) to send a message; to message sb (abbr. for 传送讯息 (chuán sòng xùn xī)) |
| 调集 (調集) | diào jí | to summon; to muster |
| 召 | zhào | to call together; to summon |
| 招唤 (招喚) | zhāo huàn | to call; to summon |
| 拘传 (拘傳) | jū chuán | subpoena; to summon (for questioning) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 召唤.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 召开 (召開) | zhào kāi | to convene (a conference or meeting); to convoke |
| 号召 (號召) | hào zhào | to call; to appeal |
| 召集 | zhào jí | to convene; to call together |
| 召回 | zhào huí | to recall (a product, an ambassador etc) |
| 征召 (徵召) | zhēng zhào | to enlist; to draft |
| 呼唤 (呼喚) | hū huàn | to call out (a name etc); to shout |
| 唤醒 (喚醒) | huàn xǐng | to wake sb; to rouse |
| 唤起 (喚起) | huàn qǐ | to waken (to action); to rouse (the masses) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “summon”.
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.