imperial order

詔 character breakdown

surname Shao / name of an ancient state that existed in what is now Shaanxi Province
to call together / to summon / to convene / temple or monastery (used in place names in Inner Mongolia)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: an intercom to call everyone together. James II of England (zh) prepares a few mandarins (口) for everyone in the aorta's bathroom (ao4) by cutting them with a cleaver (刀). As he is finished he calls everyone together (召) over the intercom (召) to come over and fetch a piece.
words / speech / to say / to talk

= + + : The horizontal lines look like sound waves that emerge from an opening: I'll resemble 言 by a megaphone.

= + + : Maud Younger rushes into anthill and in the kitchen she uses a megaphone to loudly announce that the world revolution will soon start. She also tells the people that she has berets for everyone so that everyone will be able to be in style for the revolution. However she doesn't tell that she prepared the berets in another way: to each beret, she attached a mandarin via two capacitors which forms a formidable antenna, so that after the revolution, she'll be able to transmit her speeches directly to the wearers' brains.

Characters with 詔 as component

詔 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 詔

edict / written imperial order
posthumous edict of former emperor / Liu Bei's 劉備|刘备 edict to posterity
Nanzhao kingdom 738-937 in southwest China and southeast Asia
Nanzhao, 8th and 9th century kingdom in Yunnan, at times allied with Tang against Tibetan Tubo pressure
to receive an imperial command
secret imperial edict
expert in a specialized field such as medicine, divination or chess, available on call to the emperor (in the Tang and Song dynasties)
to respond to an imperial decree
the pretense of acting on imperial order
Zhao'an county in Zhangzhou 漳州[Zhang1 zhou1], Fujian
Zhao'an county in Zhangzhou 漳州[Zhang1 zhou1], Fujian
an Imperial edict
imperial prison
imperial decree
posthumous edict (of former emperor)
to hand down an imperial edict

Sentences with 詔

詔 currently does not appear in any sentence.