Translingual [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 女 + phonetic 夭
Han character [edit]
妖 (radical 38 女+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 女竹大 (VHK), four-corner 42434, composition ⿰女夭)
- strange, weird, supernatural
References [edit]
- KangXi: page 256, character 20
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6086
- Dae Jaweon: page 520, character 18
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1031, character 7
- Unihan data for U+5996
Cantonese [edit]
妖 (jyutping jiu1, Yale yiu1)
Japanese [edit]
妖 (common “Jōyō” kanji)
- attractive
- bewitching
- calamity
Readings [edit]
Compounds [edit]
Compounds
- 妖人 (およずれびと, oyozurebito): a person who leads others astray with their words
- 妖異 (ようい, yōi): something strange and mysterious; a monster or phantom
- 妖艶, 妖婉 (ようえん, yōen): bewitchingly attractive; seductive
- 妖花 (ようか, yōka): a strangely beautiful flower; metaphorically, a strangely beautiful woman
- 妖怪 (ようかい, yōkai): a monster, a phantom
- 妖気 (ようき, yōki): a weird or unearthly feeling
- 妖姫 (ようき, yōki): a seductively beautiful princess, a distractingly attractive woman
- 妖教 (ようきょう, yōkyō): a religion that leads people astray; heresy
- 妖孽 (ようげつ, yōgetsu): a strange calamity; an omen or portent of misfortune
- 妖言 (ようげん, yōgen / およずれごと, oyozuregoto): a malicious rumor
- 妖光 (ようこう, yōkō): a strange and inauspicious light
- 妖術 (ようじゅつ, yōjutsu): witchcraft, sorcery
- 妖法 (ようほう, yōhō)
- 妖道 (ようどう, yōdō)
- 妖術師 (ようじゅつし, yōjutsushi): a witch, a sorcerer
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- 妖女 (ようじょ, yōjo): a seductively or distractingly beautiful woman; a vamp; a female fairy, a siren
- 妖星 (ようせい, yōsei): an inauspicious or unlucky star
- 妖精 (ようせい, yōsei): fairy
- 妖精症 (ようせいしょう, yōseishō): (medical): leprechaunism, a manifestation of secondary insulin resistance
- 妖美 (ようび, yōbi): seductively beautiful
- 妖婦 (ようふ, yōfu): a seductress, a vamp
- 妖変 (ようへん, yōhen): a strange accident, emergency, or calamity
- 妖魔 (ようま, yōma): a monster, a demon
- 妖冶 (ようや, yōya): 妖艶, 妖婉: bewitchingly attractive; seductive
- 妖厄神 (ようやくじん, yōyakujin): a god of disaster and calamity; a god of disease and misfortune
- 妖霊 (ようれい, yōrei): an evil spirit; a phantom
- 妖霊星 (ようれいぼし, yōreiboshi): 妖星: an inauspicious or unlucky star
- 妖麗 (ようれい, yōrei): 妖美: seductively beautiful
- 妖化 (ようか, yōka): a demonic entity or transformation
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妖 (hiragana およずれ, romaji oyozure)
- baseless rumors about a person
- short form of 妖言 (およずれごと, oyozuregoto), of the same meaning
Synonyms [edit]
Korean [edit]
妖 (hangeul 요, revised yo, McCune-Reischauer yo)
Mandarin [edit]
妖 (pinyin yāo (yao1), Wade-Giles yao1)
Compounds [edit]
Vietnamese [edit]
Han character [edit]
妖 (yêu, èo)
