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窅

yǎo

Character

What 窅 means

1. sunken eyes
2. deep and hollow
3. remote and obscure
4. variant of {杳|yǎo}

Words starting with 窅

• 窅然yǎo ránfar and deep; remote and obscure; see also 杳然

Characters built on 目

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

• 冒màoto emit; to give off; to send out (or up, forth); to brave; to face; (bound form) reckless
• 瞀màoindistinct vision; dim

Sounds the same

Read yǎo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 咬to bite; to nip
• 舀to ladle out; to scoop up
• 杳dark and quiet; disappear
• 窈(literary) deep; profound; dim (variant of 杳
• 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