U+5996, 妖
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5996

[U+5995]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5997]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 38, +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 女竹大 (VHK), four-corner 42434, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 256, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6086
  • Dae Jaweon: page 520, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1031, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+5996

Chinese

trad.
simp. #
alternative forms 𡝩

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *qrow) : semantic + phonetic (OC *qoːwʔ, *qrow, *qrowʔ).

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /iɑu⁵⁵/
Harbin /iau⁴⁴/
Tianjin /iɑu²¹/
Jinan /iɔ²¹³/
Qingdao /iɔ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /iau²⁴/
Xi'an /iau²¹/
Xining /iɔ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /iɔ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /iɔ³¹/
Ürümqi /iɔ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /iau⁵⁵/
Chengdu /iau⁵⁵/
Guiyang /iao⁵⁵/
Kunming /iɔ⁴⁴/
Nanjing /iɔo³¹/
Hefei /iɔ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /iau¹¹/
Pingyao /iɔ¹³/
Hohhot /iɔ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /iɔ⁵³/
Suzhou /iæ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ʔiɔ³³/
Wenzhou /j̠iɛ³³/
Hui Shexian /iɔ³¹/
Tunxi /io¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /iau³³/
Xiangtan /iaɯ³³/
Gan Nanchang /iɛu⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /iau⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /ieu²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jiu³⁵/
Nanning /jiu⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /jiu³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /iau⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /ieu⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /iau⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /iau³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /iau²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (34)
Final () (92)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter 'jew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔˠiᴇu/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔᵚiɛu/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔiæu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔiaw/
Li
Rong
/ʔjɛu/
Wang
Li
/ĭɛu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔi̯ɛu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yāo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jiu1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 14627
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qrow/

Definitions

  1. abnormal or bizarre thing or phenomenon
    事體 [Shanghainese, trad.]
    事体 [Shanghainese, simp.]
    From: 2011, Hu Baotan, 弄堂
    6zy-thi 6lau 1iau-gheq [Wugniu]
    It's quite an odd happenstance.
  2. demon; goblin
       māoyāo   cat goblin
  3. evil and fraudulent
       yāoshù   witchcraft; sorcery
    言惑眾言惑众   yāoyánhuòzhòng   to deceive people with lies and fallacies
  4. (literary) gorgeous; beautiful; charming
  5. (chiefly of women) bizarrely dressed or behaving frivolously
       yāoyāo   seductive and bewitching
  6. (Cantonese, vulgar) yuck! (used in place of its near-homophone (diu2))

Synonyms

  • (demon):

Compounds

  • 人妖 (rényāo)
  • 做妖撒妖
  • 凶妖
  • 厲妖厉妖
  • 國妖国妖
  • 地妖
  • 夜妖
  • 天妖
  • 天災地妖天灾地妖
  • 妄妖
  • 妖人 (yāorén)
  • 妖倖妖幸
  • 妖偽妖伪
  • 妖僮
  • 妖兇妖凶
  • 妖冶 (yāoyě)
  • 妖凶
  • 妖化
  • 妖厲妖厉
  • 妖咎
  • 妖夢妖梦
  • 妖女 (yāonǚ)
  • 妖妄
  • 妖妙
  • 妖妖
  • 妖妖調調妖妖调调
  • 妖姿
  • 妖妍
  • 妖姬
  • 妖媚 (yāomèi)
  • 妖嫻妖娴
  • 妖嫺妖娴
  • 妖嬈妖娆 (yāoráo)
  • 妖嬌妖娇
  • 妖孽 (yāoniè)
  • 妖幸
  • 妖幻
  • 妖彗
  • 妖形怪狀妖形怪状
  • 妖忌
  • 妖怪 (yāoguài)
  • 妖惑
  • 妖星
  • 妖服
  • 妖桃
  • 妖氛
  • 妖氣妖气
  • 妖沴
  • 妖法 (yāofǎ)
  • 妖淫
  • 妖災妖灾
  • 妖物 (yāowù)
  • 妖玩
  • 妖由人興妖由人兴
  • 妖異妖异
  • 妖眚
  • 妖神
  • 妖祥
  • 妖祲
  • 妖童
  • 妖精 (yāojīng)
  • 妖聲妖氣妖声妖气
  • 妖蠱妖蛊
  • 妖術妖术 (yāoshù)
  • 妖術惑眾妖术惑众
  • 妖術邪法妖术邪法
  • 妖裡妖氣妖里妖气 (yāolǐyāoqì)
  • 妖言 (yāoyán)
  • 妖言惑眾妖言惑众 (yāoyánhuòzhòng)
  • 妖訛妖讹
  • 妖誕妖诞
  • 妖調妖调
  • 妖變妖变
  • 妖豔妖艳 (yāoyàn)
  • 妖賊妖贼
  • 妖道 (yāodào)
  • 妖邪 (yāoxié)
  • 妖野
  • 妖鏡妖镜
  • 妖閑妖闲
  • 妖雰妖氛
  • 妖霧妖雾
  • 妖靡
  • 妖韶
  • 妖風妖风 (yāofēng)
  • 妖饒妖饶
  • 妖魅
  • 妖魑
  • 妖魔 (yāomó)
  • 妖魔鬼怪 (yāomóguǐguài)
  • 妖麗妖丽
  • 妖麼妖么
  • 姝妖
  • 婦妖妇妖
  • 嫺妖娴妖
  • 射妖
  • 小妖
  • 小妖精 (xiǎoyāojīng)
  • 屍妖尸妖 (shīyāo)
  • 山妖
  • 巫妖 (wūyāo)
  • 平妖傳平妖传
  • 幽妖
  • 怪妖
  • 憑妖凭妖
  • 成妖作怪
  • 撒妖
  • 文妖
  • 斷怪除妖断怪除妖
  • 服妖 (fúyāo)
  • 木妖
  • 構妖构妖
  • 氛妖
  • 水妖 (shuǐyāo)
  • 淫妖
  • 災妖灾妖
  • 照妖鏡照妖镜 (zhàoyāojìng)
  • 物妖
  • 狐妖
  • 甘妖
  • 生妖作怪
  • 畫妖画妖
  • 疆妖
  • 眚妖
  • 石妖
  • 神妖鬼怪
  • 祥妖
  • 義妖傳义妖传
  • 老妖精
  • 胡妖
  • 興妖作亂兴妖作乱
  • 興妖作孽兴妖作孽
  • 興妖作怪兴妖作怪
  • 花妖
  • 花妖子
  • 草妖
  • 蛇妖 (shéyāo)
  • 蜺妖
  • 蟲妖虫妖
  • 裝妖作怪装妖作怪
  • 詩妖诗妖
  • 謠妖谣妖
  • 豔紫妖紅艳紫妖红
  • 貓妖猫妖 (māoyāo)
  • 賣妖嬈卖妖娆
  • 踐妖践妖
  • 逞妖
  • 避妖圈
  • 閻妖阎妖
  • 閻羅妖阎罗妖
  • 降妖 (xiángyāo)
  • 韃妖鞑妖
  • 食妖
  • 驅妖驱妖
  • 鴻妖鸿妖
  • 黃妖黄妖
  • 墨妖
  • 鼓妖
  • 鼠妖

References

  1. Wu Fusheng (1998). The Poetics of Decadence: Chinese Poetry of the Southern Dynasties and Late Tang Periods. Albany: State University of New York Press. pp. 47-48

Further reading

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. attractive
  2. bewitching
  3. calamity

Readings

Compounds

Noun

(およずれ) • (oyozure) およづれ (oyodure)?

  1. baseless rumors about a person
  2. short form of (およずれ)(ごと) (oyozuregoto), of the same meaning
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
よう
Grade: S
on’yomi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [jo̞ː]

Affix

(よう) • () 

  1. attractive
  2. bewitching

Korean

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Hanja

Wikisource • (yo) (hangeul )

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: yêu, èo

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