Chinese Character Wiki

窅

yǎo

far

Sunken 穴 eyes 目

Components
穴 meaning component

穴  Meaning component

xué

  

cave

目 meaning component

目  Meaning component

mù

  

eye

Evolution

窅 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
窅 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

窅  

yǎo

far, deep; sunken eyes; sad; deep and hollow; remote and obscure; variant of 杳[yǎo]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

8446th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+7A85

Shuowen

“窅，深目也。从穴中目。”


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