Chinese Character Wiki
爻

yáo

diagrams for divination

Depicts two X shapes used as divinatory diagrams.

Evolution

爻 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
爻 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
爻 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
爻 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

爻  

yáo

diagrams for divination; the solid and broken lines of the eight trigrams 八卦[bā​guà], e.g. ☶

Component uses

Sound component in 4 characters (2 verified)

學 教 駁 驳

Iconic component in 4 characters (4 verified)

教 希 爽 棥

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*N-kˤraw

haew

yáo

change; hexagram

*N-kˤraw

haew

yáo

change; hexagram


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4680th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

4

Unicode

U+723B

Shuowen

“爻，交也。象《易》六爻頭交也。”


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