妖
妖 — yo
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 요사할 요
- Romanization
- yo
- English
- strange, weird, supernatural
- Mandarin
- yāo
- Japanese on'yomi
- ヨウ, コウ, キョウ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- あや.しい なま.めく わざわ.い
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,964 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 女 (38, 4 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 夭
- Unicode
- U+5996
Parts that make up 妖
How 妖 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 妖 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 女, 夭.
Korean example words with 妖
- 요병妖病 Korean gloss: 요사스러운 병
- 요첩妖妾 Korean gloss: 요사스러운 첩
- 요녀妖女 Korean gloss: 요사스러운 계집
- 요부妖婦 Korean gloss: 요사스러운 계집
- 요소妖笑 Korean gloss: 요사스러운 웃음
- 요물妖物 Korean gloss: 간사하고 간악한 사람
- 요망妖妄 Korean gloss: 언행이 방정맞고 경솔함
- 요적妖賊 Korean gloss: 괴이한 도둑이나 반역자
- 요귀妖鬼 Korean gloss: 요망하고 간사스러운 마귀
- 요마妖魔 Korean gloss: 요망하고 간사스러운 마귀
- 요악妖惡 Korean gloss: 요사하고 간사하며 악독함
- 재요災妖 Korean gloss: 재앙과 요괴를 아울러 이르는 말
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 妖
- 妖怪ようかい ghost; apparition; phantom
- 妖精ようせい fairy; sprite; elf
- 妖艶ようえん fascinating; voluptuous; bewitching
- 妖術ようじゅつ (black) magic; witchcraft; sorcery
- 妖魔ようま ghost; monster; demon
- 面妖めんよう weird; strange; mysterious
- 妖女ようじょ enchantress; vamp
- 妖気ようき ominous atmosphere; ghostly air; weird air
- 妖婦ようふ enchantress; seductress; vamp
- 妖婆ようば hag; old witch
- 妖異ようい mysterious occurrence
- 妖雲よううん ominous cloud
Characters sharing the phonetic 夭
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.
Other hanja read “요”
Other hanja with radical 女
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences