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尧

Yáo

Character Traditional 堯

What 尧 means

1. surname Yao
2. Yao or Tang Yao (c. 2200 BC), one of the Five legendary Emperors {五帝|Wǔ Dì}, second son of Di Ku {帝喾|Dì Kù}

Words starting with 尧

• 尧都区Yáo dū QūYaodu, a district of Linfen City 临汾市
• 尧都Yáo dūsee 尧都区

Words containing 尧

• 唐尧Táng YáoYao or Tang Yao (c. 2200 BC), one of Five Legendary Emperors 五帝
• 赵忠尧Zhào Zhōng yáoZhao Zhongyao (1902-1998), Chinese pioneer nuclear physicist
• 隆尧县Lóng yáo XiànLongyao, a county in Xingtai City 邢台市
• 舜日尧天Shùn rì Yáo tiānsage Emperors Shun and Yao rule every day (idiom); all for the best in the best of all…
• 舜日尧年Shùn rì Yáo niánsage Emperors Shun and Yao rule every day (idiom); all for the best in the best of all…
• 隆尧Lóng yáosee 隆尧县

Characters that look like 尧

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

• 免miǎnto excuse sb; to exempt; to remove or dismiss from office
• 灵língquick; alert; efficacious
• 壳ké(colloquial) shell (of an egg, nut, crab etc); case; casing…
• 秃tūbald (lacking hair or feathers); barren; bare; denuded; blunt (lacking a point)
• 芫yánused in 芫荽
• 羌qiāngmuntjac; grammar particle indicating nonsense (classical)

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
• 姚handsome; good-looking
• 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

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read Yáo correctly.
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