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姚

yáo

Character

What 姚 means

1. handsome
2. good-looking

Other readings

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

• Yáosurname Yao

Example sentences

• 我认识他，他是姚明。
  Wǒ rènshi tā, tā shì Yáo Míng.
  I know him, he is Yao Ming.

Words starting with 姚

• 姚明Yáo MíngYao Ming (1980-), retired Chinese basketball player, played for CBA Shanghai Sharks…
• 姚文元Yáo Wén yuánYao Wenyuan (1931-2005), one of the Gang of Four
• 姚滨Yáo BīnYao Bin (1957-), PRC champion ice skater during early 1980s and more recently national…
• 姚安县Yáo ān XiànYao'an, a county in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture 楚雄彝族自治州
• 姚思廉Yáo Sī liánYao Silian (557-637), Tang writer and compiler of 梁书
• 姚雪垠Yáo Xuě yínYao Xueyin (1910-1999), PRC novelist, author of historical novel Li Zicheng 李自成
• 姚安Yáo ānsee 姚安县

Words containing 姚

• 大姚县Dà yáo XiànDayao, a county in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture 楚雄彝族自治州
• 余姚市Yú yáo ShìYuyao, a county-level city in Ningbo City 宁波市
• 余姚Yú yáosee 余姚市
• 大姚Dà yáosee 大姚县

Characters that look like 姚

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

• 健jiànhealthy; to invigorate; to strengthen
• 娱yúto amuse
• 姨yímother's sister; aunt
• 姥lǎograndma (maternal)
• 娥égood; beautiful
• 娓wěiused in 娓娓

Sounds the same

Read yáo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 摇to shake; to rock; to row
• 遥(bound form) distant; remote; far away
• 肴meat dishes; mixed viands
• 谣popular ballad; rumor
• 瑶jade; precious stone; mother-of-pearl
• 窑kiln; oven; coal pit
• 侥used in 僬侥
• 爻the solid and broken lines of the eight trigrams 八卦
• 鳐ray (cartilaginous fish, including skates)
• 徭compulsory service
• 繇folk-song; forced labor
• 珧mother-of-pearl