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窈

yǎo

Character

What 窈 means

1. literarydeep; profound; dim (variant of {杳|yǎo})

Words starting with 窈

• 窈窕yǎo tiǎo(literary) (of a woman) graceful and refined; comely; (esp.) slender; slim…
• 窈窈yǎo yǎoobscure; dusky; far and deep
• 窈冥yǎo míngvariant of 杳冥
• 窈霭yǎo ǎivariant of 杳霭

Characters built on 幼

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

• 拗ào(bound form) intractable; contrary; disobedient
• 坳àodepression; cavity; hollow; Taiwan pr. āo

Characters that look like 窈

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

• 前qiánfront; forward; ahead
• 兹zī(literary) this; (literary) now; (literary) year
• 窃qièto steal; secretly; (humble) I
• 笛díflute
• 窑yáokiln; oven; coal pit
• 菇gū(bound form) mushroom

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
• 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