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幺

yāo

Character Traditional 么

What 幺 means

1. youngest
2. most junior
3. tiny
4. one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military)
5. one or ace on dice or dominoes
6. variant of {吆|yāo}, to shout

Other readings

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

• Yāosurname Yao

Example sentences

• 搞什幺
  What's up?
• 什幺？
  What?
• 懂幺？
  Do you get it?
• 为什幺？
  Why?
• 为什幺?
  Why?
• 怎幺了？
  What's the matter?

Words starting with 幺

• 幺二yāo èrone-two or ace-deuce (smallest throw at dice); a prostitute
• 幺儿yāo ér(colloquial) youngest son
• 幺女yāo nǚ(colloquial) youngest daughter
• 幺鸡yāo jī(mahjong) bird tile; one bam
• 幺点yāo diǎnace
• 幺并矢yāo bìng shǐidemfactor (math.)
• 幺麽小丑yāo mó xiǎo chǒu(idiom) insignificant wretch

Words containing 幺

• 对幺duì yāopair of aces (in dominoes); double one
• 老幺lǎo yāo(colloquial) youngest child

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
• 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)