摇 · yáo
wag, swing, wave; shake; scull
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
wag, swing, wave; shake; scull
- 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+6447
- Radical
- 手 · 64
- Strokes
- 13 · Unihan
- Residual
- 10
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
13 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 摇
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- yew · 餘昭 反切 · #668
- Middle Chinese
- yewH · 弋照 反切 · #2768
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 5406 · yew = 效開三平宵以 · yewH = 效開三去宵以
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- yáo
- kCantonese
- jiu4
- kDefinition
- wag, swing, wave; shake; scull
- kTotalStrokes
- 13
- kRSUnicode
- 64.10
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+6416
- kTGH
- 2013:2841
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- yáo 31933.060
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- yáo 1341.050
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- yáo 427.210
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- yáo(387)