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吆

yāo

Character

What 吆 means

1. to shout
2. to bawl
3. to yell (to urge on an animal)
4. to hawk (one's wares)

Words starting with 吆

• 吆喝yāo heto shout; to bawl; to yell (to urge on an animal)
• 吆呼yāo hūto shout (orders)
• 吆喊yāo hǎnto shout; to yell
• 吆五喝六yāo wǔ hè liùlit. to shout out hoping for fives and sixes when gambling with dice; a hubbub of gambling

Words containing 吆

• 赚吆喝zhuàn yāo he(of a company) to gain recognition through promotional efforts…

Characters that look like 吆

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 帐zhàng(bound form) curtain; tent; canopy; variant of 账
• 吻wěnkiss; to kiss; mouth
• 吐tùto vomit; to throw up
• 呗bài(bound form) to chant (from Sanskrit "pāṭhaka")
• 叻lè(used in place names)
• 呋fūused in transliteration, e.g. 呋喃; old variant of 趺

Sounds the same

Read yāo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 邀to invite; to request; to intercept
• 腰the waist and lower back; (bound form) kidney of an animal (as food)…
• 妖goblin; witch; devil
• 幺youngest; most junior; tiny
• 约to weigh in a balance or on a scale
• 夭(bound form) to die prematurely (also pr. yǎo); (literary) (of vegetation) luxuriant
• 要(bound form) to demand; to coerce
• 祅(literary) uncanny or anomalous phenomenon (variant of 妖
• 喓grasshopper chirp; mosquito buzz
• 葽Polygala japonica; lush (grass)