赵
Ancient forms
2 formsGlyphs: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Meaning
zhào zhao4
- to surpass (old)
- surname Zhao
- one of the seven states during the Warring States period (476–220 BC)
- the Former Zhao 前赵 Qián Zhào (304–329) and Later Zhao 后赵 Hòu Zhào (319–350), states of the Sixteen Kingdoms
Words with 赵
- 围魏救赵 wéiWèijiùZhào lit. to besiege 魏 (Wèi) and rescue 赵 (Zhào) (idiom)
- 完璧归赵 wánbìguīZhào lit. to return the jade annulus to Zhao (idiom); fig. to return something intact to its rightful owner
- 赵县 ZhàoXiàn Zhao County or Zhaoxian, a county in Shijiazhuang City 石家庄市 (Shí jiā zhuāng Shì), Hebei
- 赵国 ZhàoGuó Zhao, one of the seven states during the Warring States Period of Chinese history (475-220 BC)
- 赵高 ZhàoGāo Zhao Gao (?-207 BC), one of the most vile, corrupt and powerful eunuchs in Chinese history, responsible for the fall of Qin Dynasty
- 后赵 HòuZhào Later Zhao of the Sixteen Kingdoms (319-350)
- 前赵 QiánZhào Former Zhao of the Sixteen Kingdoms (304-329)
- 赵军 Zhàojūn army of Zhao 趙國|赵国 during the Warring States
- 赵云 ZhàoYún Zhao Yun (-229), general of Shu in Romance of the Three Kingdoms
- 赵客 Zhàokè knight of the Zhao State
- 燕赵 YānZhào Yan and Zhao, two of the Warring States in Hebei and Shanxi
- 赵构 ZhàoGòu Zhao Gou (1107-1187), personal name of the tenth Song Emperor Gaozong 宋高宗 (Sòng Gāo zōng) (reigned 1127-1162)