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Google defines both of them as "beckon" and Jisho.org seems to define 手招く as
"to beckon" and 招く as a whole lot of things like "invite" etc. Does the "手"
simply indicate a "hand invite" of sorts i.e. to beckon exclusively, whereas
招く can have several different interpretations?
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What is the difference between 手招く and 招く?
「[手招]{てまね}く」, as the 手 part would suggest, means "to signal a person using
one's hand to tell that person to come near". The word, therefore, has a very
limited meaning.

「[招]{まね}く」 just means "to invite" in general. To 「招く」 a person to a party, you
may use the phone, email, snail mail, etc. You probably do not 「手招く」 someone
to a "party" unless you are in the oldest profession in the world.

Thus, one could roughly say that 「手招く」 is one kind of 「招く」, but you should not
use the two interchangeably at will.

Finally, 「招く」 has a few other meanings, the most important of which is "to
cause" or "to bring about".

「[私]{わたし}のヘンテコな[回答]{かいとう}がOPの[誤解]{ごかい}を[招]{まね}いた。」 = "My odd answer caused the
OP a misunderstanding."
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