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夭

yāo

Character

What 夭 means

1. bound formto die prematurely (also pr. yǎo)
2. literary(of vegetation) luxuriant

Other readings

夭 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• yāoto die prematurely (also pr. yǎo) (variant of {夭|yāo})

Example sentences

• 他看到了警察，就逃之夭夭了。
  Tā kàn dào le jǐngchá, jiù táozhīyāoyāo le.
  As soon as he saw the policeman, he ran for it.
• 他一嗅到风声不对，就逃之夭夭了。
  Tā yī xiù dào fēng shēng bù duì, jiù táozhīyāoyāo le.
  Sensing danger, he ran away.

Words starting with 夭

• 夭折yāo zhéto die young or prematurely; to come to a premature end; to be aborted prematurely
• 夭亡yāo wángto die young
• 夭寿yāo shòuto die young; (Taiwan) (curse word) drop dead; go to hell
• 夭殇yāo shāngto die young

Words containing 夭

• 逃之夭夭táo zhī yāo yāoto escape without trace (idiom); to make one's getaway (from the scene of a crime)…
• 早夭zǎo yāoto die young
• 靠夭kào yāovariant of 靠腰

Characters that look like 夭

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

• 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐
• 天tiānday; sky; heaven
• 未wèinot yet; did not; have not
• 失shīto lose; to miss; to fail
• 夫fūhusband; man; manual worker
• 末mòtip; end; final stage

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
• 吆to shout; to bawl; to yell (to urge on an animal)
• 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)