妖
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Translingual
Han character
妖 (radical 38, 女+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 女竹大 (VHK), four-corner 42434, composition ⿰女夭)
References
- KangXi: page 256, character 20
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6086
- Dae Jaweon: page 520, character 18
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1031, character 7
- Unihan data for U+5996
Chinese
| simp. and trad. |
妖 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (夭) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 笑 | *sqʰows |
| 夭 | *qoːwʔ, *qrow, *qrowʔ |
| 镺 | *qoːwʔ, *qoːws |
| 芺 | *qoːwʔ, *qrowʔ |
| 妖 | *qrow |
| 祅 | *qrow |
| 枖 | *qrow |
| 訞 | *qrow |
| 殀 | *qrowʔ |
| 仸 | *qrowʔ |
| 妋 | *pa, *qu |
| 飫 | *qos |
| 沃 | *qoːwɢ |
| 鋈 | *qoːwɢ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qrow) : semantic 女 + phonetic 夭 (OC *qoːwʔ, *qrow, *qrowʔ).
Pronunciation
Definitions
妖
- demon
- evil and fraudulent
- gorgeous
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
妖
Readings
- Goon: よう (yō, Jōyō)←えう (eu, historical)
- Kan’on: よう (yō, Jōyō)←えう (eu, historical)
- Kun: あやしい (ayashii, 妖しい, Jōyō); およずれ (oyozure, 妖)←およづれ (oyodure, historical); なまめく (namameku, 妖めく); わざわい (wazawai, 妖い)←わざはひ (wazafafi, historical)
Compounds
Compounds
- 妖人 (oyozurebito): a person who leads others astray with their words
- 妖異 (yōi): something strange and mysterious; a monster or phantom
- 妖艶 (yōen), 妖婉 (yōen): bewitchingly attractive; seductive
- 妖花 (yōka): a strangely beautiful flower; metaphorically, a strangely beautiful woman
- 妖怪 (yōkai): a monster, a phantom
- 妖気 (yōki): a weird or unearthly feeling
- 妖姫 (yōki): a seductively beautiful princess, a distractingly attractive woman
- 妖狐 (yōko): a demon fox, kitsune
- 妖教 (yōkyō): a religion that leads people astray; heresy
- 妖孽 (yōgetsu): a strange calamity; an omen or portent of misfortune
- 妖言 (yōgen), 妖言 (oyozuregoto): a malicious rumor
- 妖光 (yōkō): a strange and inauspicious light
- 妖術 (yōjutsu): witchcraft, sorcery
- 妖法 (yōhō)
- 妖道 (yōdō)
- 妖術師 (yōjutsushi): a witch, a sorcerer
- 妖女 (yōjo): a seductively or distractingly beautiful woman; a vamp; a female fairy, a siren
- 妖星 (yōsei): an inauspicious or unlucky star
- 妖精 (yōsei): fairy
- 妖精症 (yōseishō): (medical): leprechaunism, a manifestation of secondary insulin resistance
- 妖美 (yōbi): seductively beautiful
- 妖婦 (yōfu): a seductress, a vamp
- 妖変 (yōhen): a strange accident, emergency, or calamity
- 妖魔 (yōma): a monster, a demon
- 妖冶 (yōya), 妖艶 (yōya), 妖婉 (yōya): bewitchingly attractive; seductive
- 妖厄神 (yōyakujin): a god of disaster and calamity; a god of disease and misfortune
- 妖霊 (yōrei): an evil spirit; a phantom
- 妖霊星 (yōreiboshi), 妖星 (yōreiboshi): an inauspicious or unlucky star
- 妖麗 (yōrei), 妖美 (yōrei): seductively beautiful
- 妖化 (yōka): a demonic entity or transformation
Noun
妖 (hiragana およずれ, rōmaji oyozure)
Synonyms
- 妖言 (oyozuregoto)
Korean
Hanja
妖 • (yo) (hangeul 요, revised yo, McCune–Reischauer yo)
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Vietnamese
Han character
妖 (yêu, èo)
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