谣 · yáo
sing; folksong, ballad; rumor
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
sing; folksong, ballad; rumor
- Mandarin
- yáo
- Cantonese
- jiu4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+8C23
- Radical
- 讠 · 149
- Strokes
- 12 · Unihan
- Residual
- 10
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
12 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 谣
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
謠 · 謡
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- yáo
- kCantonese
- jiu4
- kDefinition
- sing; folksong, ballad; rumor
- kTotalStrokes
- 12
- kRSUnicode
- 149'.10
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+8B20 U+8B21
- kTGH
- 2013:2796
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- yáo 1341.020
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- yáo 427.200
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- yáo(19)