Chinese Character Wiki

窈

yǎo

obscure

Components
穴 meaning component

穴  Meaning component

xué

  

cave

cave

幼 sound component

幼  Sound component

yòu

  

young, infant

Evolution

窈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
窈 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
窈 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

窈  

yǎo

obscure, secluded; refined; deep; quiet and elegant; variant of 杳[yǎo]

Most common words with 窈
Freq.
Word
Meaning

窈窕

a seductive woman

窈

deep

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ʔˤ[e]wʔ

'ewX

yǎo

'ewX-dewX hidden; deep


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4541st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+7A88

Shuowen

“窈，深遠也。从穴，幼聲。”


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