What is the Kanji for "Invite"?

If you are wondering what is the Japanese Kanji for "Invite", you've come to the right place!

The Japanese Kanji for "Invite" is "招".

This kanji has 2 readings:

Its kunyomi reading is "Mane".

Its onyomi reading is "Shou".

kunyomi readings are based on the pronunciation of native Japanese words, and onyomi readings are based on the Chinese pronunciation of the character.

If you visually breakdown this kanji, you can see is made up of 2 parts:

The radical "扌" means "Hand" . And The kanji "召" means "Eat", "Call", and "Summon" and can be read as "Me" and "Shou".

Now, let's make sure you understand this kanji the other way around too.

What does the kanji "招" mean in japanese?

"招" means "Invite".

Japanese School Students learn this kanji in Fifth Grade, while foreigners may learn this kanji in preparation for the JLPT N3 exam.

Here are some words that use this kanji:

招待: "Invite". The verbal noun '招待 (しょうたい)' means 'to invite'. It refers to the act of extending an invitation or requesting the presence of someone at an event, gathering, or occasion. For example: She invited me to her party - (彼女は私を彼女のパーティーに招待した). The company sent out invitations to the annual gala - (その企業は年次ガラに招待状を送った).

招く: "Invite". The Japanese verb '招く (まねく)' means 'to invite'. This verb is used to ask someone to come to an event, place, or activity. It implies extending an invitation or calling someone to join. For example: I invited my friends to my birthday party - (私は友達を私の誕生日パーティーに招きました). Please come, I've invited you - (どうぞ来てください、私があなたを招きました).

To make really sure you learn this Kanji, I've prepared an interactive lesson for you. You are going to learn the readings and meanings of this kanji.

But first, you need to know a little bit about Hiragana and Katakana.

Hiragana and katakana are japanese syllabaries, this means that each character represents a syllable.

This are the characters you need to know for this lesson:

The hiragana "し" is read as "shi". The hiragana "う" is read as "u". The hiragana "ま" is read as "ma". And The hiragana "ね" is read as "ne".

Heres a quick tutorial on how to use it. You'll be asked three type of questions: meaning, reading, and writing.

For meanings questions all you have to do is type the english meaning. If there is more than one meaning, you have to include them all in your answer separating them by commas (,).

For Reading questions you have to type the reading in romaji (roman letters, our normal alphabet) and it'll be automatically converted to hiragana if necessary. If there is more than one reading, you have to include them all in your answer separating them by commas (,).

For Writing questions some options will appear and all you have to do is select the correct ones.