zhāo
adjective #20,140

Meanings

  1. 1 bright
  2. 2 clear
  3. 3 manifest
  4. 4 to show clearly (literary)

Examples

Zhēnxiàng yǐ zhāo rán ruò jiē.
The truth is now perfectly clear for all to see.
Zhāojūn chū sài shì Zhōngguó lìshǐ shàng zhùmíng de gùshi.
Wang Zhaojun's journey to the frontier is a famous story in Chinese history.

Tips

register
is a classical character. In modern Chinese it appears mainly in fixed phrases: (obvious for all to see), (to make clear / to manifest), and in personal or place names such as and .

Stroke Order

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