召开 zhàokāi convene

Traditional: 召開

HSK 5 — advanced proficiency: 1,300 new words, 2,500 in all. You can read newspapers, enjoy films and give speeches in Chinese. In HSK 3.0, 召开 is in band 4. HSK 5 explained

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中召开。

This word means to convene. Picture a manager telling the team that a big meeting will start on Monday morning, and everyone needs to come. You'd say it for a meeting. Say it with me.

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Stroke order

召开 is written in 9 strokes across 2 characters.

召开 — the Chinese character for convene (zhàokāi), stroke diagram — Stroke diagram for 召开 — convene

召 — 5 strokes
开 — 4 strokes

Senses

to convene (a conference or meeting)
to convoke
to call together

Characters in 召开

召 zhào — to call together; to summon; to convene
开 kāi — to open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start; to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run

Character meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Where 召开 lives

HSK 5 list Practise HSK 3.0 · band 4 Practise Topic: Events and occasions Practise

召开 is pronounced zhàokāi and means “convene”.