兆

(bound form) omen; to foretell; million; mega-; (Tw) trillion; tera-; (old) billion

6 strokes Dict coverage rank #2,360 U+5146

Pictograph (象形字)

Cracks in oracle bones used in fortune-telling

components: 儿 ? unknown part

portent · Heisig RSH #237

— as a component also called: portent, turtle

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Characters built with 兆 as their sound component

These characters all use 兆 (zhào) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
兆 sound component	zhào	omen; mega-, million
跳	tiào	to hop, to skip; to jump, to leap; to vault; to dance
桃	táo	peach; marriage; surname
逃	táo	to abscond, to dodge, to escape, to flee
挑	tiāo	to select, to choose; picky, choosy; a load
姚	yáo	handsome, elegant, attractive; surname
洮	táo	to cleanse; a river in Gansu province
眺	tiào	to gaze, to look at; to scan, to survey
窕	tiǎo	slender; quiet, modest; charming
铫	yáo	hoe; spear; surname
珧	yáo	mother-of-pearl
晁	cháo	morning, dawn; surname
祧	tiāo	ancestral hall
鼗	táo	small revolving drum with knobs

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
兆电子伏	zhào diàn zǐ fú	mega electron volt (MeV) (unit of energy equal to 1.6 x 10⁻¹³ joules)
兆字节	zhào zì jié	megabyte (2^20 or approximately a million bytes)
兆瓦特	zhào wǎ tè	megawatt
兆瓦时	zhào wǎ shí	megawatt-hour
不祥之兆	bù xiáng zhī zhào	(idiom) bad omen
兆头	zhào tou	omen; portent; sign
前兆	qián zhào	omen; prior indication; first sign
百兆	bǎi zhào	(computer networking) 100 megabits per second; 100Base-T
吉兆	jí zhào	lucky omen
兆周	zhào zhōu	megacycle (MC), equals 1,000,000 Hz
千兆	qiān zhào	giga-; (computer networking) gigabits per second; 1000Base-T
兆瓦	zhào wǎ	megawatt
先兆	xiān zhào	omen
征兆	zhēng zhào	omen; sign (that sth is about to happen); warning sign
京兆	jīng zhào	capital of a country
险兆	xiǎn zhào	evil omen
兆赫	zhào hè	megahertz
预兆	yù zhào	omen; sign (of sth yet to occur); prior indication; to foreshadow
凶兆	xiōng zhào	ill omen
朕兆	zhèn zhào	omen; sign (that sth is about to happen); warning sign