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杳

yǎo

Character

What 杳 means

1. dark and quiet
2. disappear

Words starting with 杳

• 杳冥yǎo míngdim and dusky; far and indistinct
• 杳杳yǎo yǎodeep and somber; see also 窈窈
• 杳渺yǎo miǎodimly discernible
• 杳然yǎo ránquiet, silent, and lonely; far and indistinct; gone without a trace
• 杳茫yǎo mángdistant and out of sight
• 杳如黄鹤yǎo rú huáng hèto be gone forever (idiom); to disappear without a trace
• 杳无人迹yǎo wú rén jì(idiom) without trace of human presence; uninhabited; deserted
• 杳无音信yǎo wú yīn xìnto have no news whatever
• 杳霭yǎo ǎifar and deep
• 杳无人烟yǎo wú rén yānsee 杳无人迹
• 杳无消息yǎo wú xiāo xīsee 杳无音信
• 杳眇yǎo miǎovariant of 杳渺

Words containing 杳

• 雁杳鱼沉yàn yǎo yú chénwithout news from sb (idiom)
• 鱼沉雁杳yú chén yàn yǎolit. the fish swam away into the depths, the goose vanished in the distance (idiom)…

Characters built on 日

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

• 早zǎoearly; morning; Good morning!
• 暴bàosudden; violent; cruel
• 曝bàoused in 曝光; Taiwan pr. pù
• 昭zhāobright; clear; manifest
• 曹cáoclass or grade; generation; plaintiff and defendant (old)
• 昊hàovast and limitless; the vast sky
• 曜yàobright; glorious; one of the seven planets of premodern astronomy
• 昴mǎothe Pleiades

Characters that look like 杳

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

• 委wěito entrust; to cast aside; to shift (blame etc)
• 查cháto research; to check; to investigate
• 香xiāngfragrant; sweet smelling; aromatic
• 垂chuíto hang (down); droop; dangle
• 奎kuícrotch; 15th of the 28th constellations of Chinese astronomy
• 沓dáclassifier for sheets of papers etc: pile, pad; Taiwan pr. tà

Sounds the same

Read yǎo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 咬to bite; to nip
• 舀to ladle out; to scoop up
• 窈(literary) deep; profound; dim (variant of 杳
• 窅sunken eyes; deep and hollow; remote and obscure
• 婹svelte; sylphlike
• 崾(used in place names)
• 眑sunken eyes; deep; abstruse
• 蓔a variety of grass
• 騕name of a fabulous horse
• 鷕cry of hen pheasant
• 窔dark; deep; southeast corner of room