yāo
waist
Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 要 represents the sound.
Components
Definitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ʔew | 'jiew | yāo | waist |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 12.5741% of movies
1836th most common character in movies
1458th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+8170 |
Sources
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