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妖

yāo

Character

What 妖 means

1. goblin
2. witch
3. devil
4. bewitching
5. enchanting
6. monster
7. phantom
8. demon

Example sentences

• 她打扮得妖里妖气，一副傻样！
  Tā dǎban de yāoli-yāoqì, yī fù shǎ yàng!
  She dresses so outrageously; it looks completely ridiculous!

Words starting with 妖

• 妖怪yāo guàimonster; devil
• 妖精yāo jingevil spirit; alluring woman
• 妖魔yāo módemon
• 妖娆yāo ráoenchanting; alluring (of a girl)
• 妖艳yāo yànpretty and flirtatious
• 妖冶yāo yěpretty and flirtatious
• 妖媚yāo mèiseductive; captivating; alluring
• 妖人yāo rénmagician; sorcerer
• 妖女yāo nǚbeautiful woman
• 妖姬yāo jī(literary) beauty (usually of a maid or concubine)
• 妖妇yāo fùwitch (esp. European)
• 妖孽yāo nièevildoer
• 妖气yāo qìsinister appearance; monster-like appearance
• 妖物yāo wùmonster
• 妖术yāo shùsorcery
• 妖言yāo yánheresy
• 妖邪yāo xiéevil monster
• 妖风yāo fēngevil wind
• 妖术师yāo shù shīwarlock; sorcerer
• 妖魔化yāo mó huàto demonize
• 妖言惑众yāo yán huò zhòngto mislead the public with rumors (idiom); to delude the people with lies
• 妖魔鬼怪yāo mó guǐ guài(idiom) all kinds of evil spirits or malevolent beings
• 妖蛾子yāo é zivariant of 幺蛾子

Words containing 妖

• 小妖精xiǎo yāo jīnggoblin; hussy; floozy
• 人妖rén yāotransvestite; transsexual; ladyboy
• 作妖zuò yāo(dialect) to cause trouble; to act up
• 小妖xiǎo yāosmall demon
• 镇妖zhèn yāoto drive away evil spirits
• 降妖xiáng yāoto subdue monsters
• 屠妖节Tú yāo jiéDeepavali (Hindu festival)
• 照妖镜zhào yāo jìngmagic mirror for revealing goblins; fig. way of seeing through a conspiracy
• 口袋妖怪Kǒu dài Yāo guàiPokémon (Japanese media franchise)
• 兴妖作怪xīng yāo zuò guàilit. to summon demons to create havoc (idiom); fig. to stir up all kinds of trouble
• 蓝色妖姬lán sè yāo jīblue rose

Characters built on 夭

These share the phonetic component 夭 (yāo), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 袄ǎocoat; jacket; short and lined coat or robe
• 岙àoplain in the middle of the mountains; used in place names, esp. in 浙江

Characters that look like 妖

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

• 始shǐto begin; to start; then
• 板bǎnboard; plank; plate
• 贩fànto deal in; to buy and sell; to trade in
• 圾jīused in 垃圾; Taiwan pr. sè
• 妩wǔused in 妩媚
• 钒fánvanadium (chemistry)

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)…
• 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
• 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)