肇 (zhào): at first, devise, originate
肇 (zhào) is a Chinese character meaning “at first.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 户 (structural), 攵 (structural) and 聿 (structural). It ranks #2840 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Definitions
- at first
- devise
- originate
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 肇事verb | zhào shì | to cause an accident |
| 肇事者noun | zhào shì zhě | offender |
| 交通肇事罪 | jiāo tōng zhào shì zuì | culpable driving causing serious damage or injury |
| 肇庆大学 | zhào qìng dà xué | Zhaoqing University (Guangdong) |
| 肇东市 | zhào dōng shì | Zhaodong, a county-level city in Suihua City 綏化市|绥化市, Heilongjiang |
| 李肇星 | lǐ zhào xīng | Li Zhaoxing (1940-), former PRC foreign minister |
| 丁肇中 | dīng zhào zhōng | Samuel C. C. Ting (1936-), American physicist, 1976 Nobel Prize laureate in physics |
| 肇庆市 | zhào qìng shì | Zhaoqing, prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province 廣東省|广东省 |
| 肇因noun | zhào yīn | cause |
| 肇事逃逸verb | zhào shì táo yì | hit-and-run |
| 肇东proper-noun | zhào dōng | see 肇東市|肇东市 |
| 肇建 | zhào jiàn | (literary) to establish |
| 肇始verb | zhào shǐ | to initiate |
| 肇州县 | zhào zhōu xiàn | Zhaozhou, a county in Daqing City 大慶市|大庆市, Heilongjiang |
| 肇源县 | zhào yuán xiàn | Zhaoyuan, a county in Daqing City 大慶市|大庆市, Heilongjiang |
肇 appears in 21 compound words: 86 as the first character, 0 as the last, and 14 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 肇 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
肇字的写法很特别，让我印象深刻。
zhào zì de xiě fǎ hěn tè bié , ràng wǒ yìn xiàng shēn kè .
The way the character "肇" is written is quite unique and has left a deep impression on me.
...起火传爆炸声酿4伤 疑不小心处理喷雾气瓶肇祸 (有片)
. . . qǐ huǒ chuán bào zhà shēng niàng 4 shāng yí bù xiǎo xīn chǔ lǐ pēn wù qì píng zhào huò ( yǒu piàn )
...Fire and Explosion Leave 4 Injured; Accident Likely Caused by Improper Handling of Aerosol Can (Video)
彰化肇事路口榜单出炉!“这路口”卫冕王
zhāng huà zhào shì lù kǒu bǎng dān chū lú ! zhè lù kǒu wèi 冕 wáng
Changhua’s List of High-Accident Intersections Released! “This Intersection” Retains Its Title
资深男星2度酒驾撞分隔岛!肇逃后“揪友聚餐灭证” 坦承嫌疑遭移送
zī shēn nán xīng 2 dù jiǔ jià zhuàng fēn gé dǎo ! zhào táo hòu jiū yǒu jù cān miè zhèng tǎn chéng xián yí zāo yí sòng
Veteran Actor Caught Drunk Driving for the Second Time, Crashes Into Median! Flees the Scene, Then "Gathers Friends for Dinner to Destroy Evidence"; Admits to Charges and Is Referred to Prosecutors
肇庆超导可视微管堕胎的价钱是多少?说明超导...
zhào qìng chāo dǎo kě shì wēi guǎn duò tāi de jià qián shì duō shǎo ? shuō míng chāo dǎo . . .
How much does a guided ultrasound-guided microtube abortion cost in Zhaoqing? Please explain the guided...
江肇国批公务机关贴“马上有钱”春联很奇怪 今...
jiāng zhào guó pī gōng wù jī guān tiē mǎ shàng yǒu qián chūn lián hěn qí guài jīn . . .
Jiang Zhaoguo's approval of public agencies for posting "money soon" Spring Festival couplets is very strange today...
上海以前有许多小河浜，其中有肇家浜、洋泾浜，现在都被填了。
Shànghǎi yǐqián yǒu xǔduō xiǎohé bāng, qízhōng yǒu zhào jiā bāng, yáng Jīng bāng, xiànzài dōu bèi tián le.
There used to be a lot of small creeks in old time Shanghai, which included Zhaojia Creek and Yangjing Creek, but they're all covered up nowadays.
Character Family
聿 Radical Family — Characters sharing the brush radical
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