姚
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Translingual
Han character
姚 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 女中一人 (VLMO), four-corner 42413, composition ⿰女兆)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 259, character 18
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6202
- Dae Jaweon: page 525, character 18
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1046, character 3
- Unihan data for U+59DA
Chinese
| trad. | 姚 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. # | 姚 | |
| alternative forms | 窕 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 姚 | |
|---|---|
| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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| Old Chinese | |
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| 挑 | *l̥ʰaːw, *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːwʔ |
| 洮 | *l̥ʰaːw, *l'aːw, *lew |
| 桃 | *l'aːw |
| 逃 | *l'aːw |
| 咷 | *l'aːw, *l̥ʰeːws |
| 鼗 | *l'aːw |
| 鞉 | *l'aːw |
| 駣 | *l'aːw, *l'aːwʔ, *l'aːws, *l'ewʔ |
| 𣂁 | *sl̥ʰew |
| 脁 | *l̥ʰews |
| 晁 | *l'ew |
| 兆 | *l'ewʔ |
| 旐 | *l'ewʔ |
| 狣 | *l'ewʔ |
| 鮡 | *l'ewʔ, *l'eːw |
| 垗 | *l'ewʔ |
| 姚 | *lew |
| 珧 | *lew |
| 銚 | *lew, *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːws |
| 恌 | *lew, *l̥ʰeːw |
| 烑 | *lew |
| 餆 | *lew |
| 筄 | *lews |
| 艞 | *lews |
| 佻 | *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːw |
| 祧 | *l̥ʰeːw |
| 朓 | *l̥ʰeːw, *l̥ʰeːwʔ |
| 庣 | *l̥ʰeːw |
| 趒 | *l̥ʰeːw, *l̥ʰeːws, *l'eːw |
| 聎 | *l̥ʰeːw |
| 眺 | *l̥ʰeːws |
| 覜 | *l̥ʰeːws |
| 頫 | *l̥ʰeːws, *poʔ |
| 絩 | *l̥ʰeːws |
| 跳 | *l̥ʰeːws, *l'eːw |
| 窕 | *l'eːwʔ |
| 誂 | *l'eːwʔ |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): jiu4
- Hakka
- Eastern Min (BUC): ièu
- Southern Min
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 6yau
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄧㄠˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: yáo
- Wade–Giles: yao2
- Yale: yáu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yau
- Palladius: яо (jao)
- Sinological IPA (key): /jɑʊ̯³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: jiu4
- Yale: yìuh
- Cantonese Pinyin: jiu4
- Guangdong Romanization: yiu4
- Sinological IPA (key): /jiːu̯²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yèu
- Hakka Romanization System: ieuˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: yeu2
- Sinological IPA: /i̯eu̯¹¹/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yèu
- Hakka Romanization System: (r)ieuˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: yeu2
- Sinological IPA: /(j)i̯eu̯¹¹/
- (Meixian)
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: ièu
- Sinological IPA (key): /ieu⁵³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Southern Min
Note:
- io5 - Shantou;
- iê5 - Chaozhou.
- Middle Chinese: yew
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*lew/
Definitions
姚
Compounds
Descendants
References
- “姚”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
- “Query for 姚”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.
Japanese
Kanji
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