(lit.) to raise a banner to summon the soul of a dying person (idiom); (fig.) to try to revive what is obsolete or dead
trad. 揚幡招魂
Also written 揚幡招魂【yáng fān zhāo hún】
Characters in this word
4扬
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abbr. for Yangzhou 揚州|扬州[Yang2 zhou1] in Jiangsu, surname Yang
- Pinyin
- Yáng
- Traditional
- 揚
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 23845 of 2500
幡
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banner
- Pinyin
- fān
- Strokes
- 15
招
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to recruit, to provoke, to beckon, to incur, to infect, contagious, a move (chess), a maneuver, device, trick, to confess
- Pinyin
- zhāo
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 6697 of 2500
魂
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old variant of 魂[hun2]
- Pinyin
- hún
- Traditional
- 䰟
- Strokes
- 13
- Frequency
- 16902 of 2500