Chinese symbol for “summons”
传唤
chuán huàn
Traditional: 傳喚
a summons (to the police); subpoena
The closest CC-CEDICT match for summons is 传唤 (chuán huàn), defined as: a summons (to the police); subpoena.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “summons”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 传唤.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 传统 (傳統) | chuán tǒng | tradition; traditional |
| 宣传 (宣傳) | xuān chuán | to disseminate; to give publicity to |
| 传播 (傳播) | chuán bō | to disseminate; to propagate; to spread |
| 传说 (傳說) | chuán shuō | legend; folk tale; to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that... |
| 上传 (上傳) | shàng chuán | to upload |
| 传递 (傳遞) | chuán dì | to transmit; to pass on to sb else; (math.) transitive |
| 召唤 (召喚) | zhào huàn | to summon; to beckon |
| 呼唤 (呼喚) | hū huàn | to call out (a name etc); to shout |
See also: Japanese symbol for “summons”.
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.