yāo
strange
Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 夭 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
yāo
strange, weird, supernatural; goblin; witch; devil; bewitching; enchanting; monster; phantom; demon
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.8855% of movies
2181st most common character in movies
1869th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+5996 |
Shuowen | “，巧也。一曰女子笑皃。《詩》曰：‘桃之。’从女，芺聲。” |
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