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鳐

yáo

Character Traditional 鰩

What 鳐 means

1. ray (cartilaginous fish, including skates)

Words starting with 鳐

• 鳐鱼yáo yúskate (cartilaginous fish of the family Rajidae); (colloquial) ray (fish)

Words containing 鳐

• 电鳐diàn yáo(zoology) electric ray

Characters built on 䍃

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

• 摇yáoto shake; to rock; to row
• 遥yáo(bound form) distant; remote; far away
• 谣yáopopular ballad; rumor
• 瑶yáojade; precious stone; mother-of-pearl
• 鹞yàosparrow hawk; Accipiter nisus
• 徭yáocompulsory service
• 繇yáofolk-song; forced labor

Characters that look like 鳐

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

• 瀚hànocean; vastness
• 鞠jūto incline (one's torso); to bow; leather ball used in ancient times…
• 蹊qīused in 蹊跷; Taiwan pr. xī
• 璐lùbeautiful jade
• 蹒pánused in 蹒跚; Taiwan pr. mán
• 鳃sāigills of fish

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
• 徭compulsory service
• 繇folk-song; forced labor
• 珧mother-of-pearl