姚

Translingual

Han character

姚 (radical 38 女+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 女中一人 (VLMO), four-corner 4241₃, composition ⿰女兆)

1. handsome, elegant
2. used as a surname

References

• KangXi: page 259, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6202
• Dae Jaweon: page 525, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1046, character 3
• Unihan data for U+59DA

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Cantonese

Hanzi

姚 (Yale yiu4)

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Japanese

Kanji

姚

Readings

• On: よう (yō), ちょう (chō)
• Kun: うつくしい (utsukushii)

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Korean

Hanja

姚
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 요 (revised: yo, McCune-Reischauer: yo)

• Name (hangeul): 예쁜()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

姚 (pinyin yáo (yao2), Wade-Giles yao²)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

姚

Descendants

• (Hokkien dialect) Tagalog: Yao