U+5996, 妖
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5996

[U+5995]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5997]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

(Kangxi radical 38, +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 女竹大 (VHK), four-corner 42434, composition )

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 256, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6086
  • Dae Jaweon: page 520, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1031, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+5996

Chinese edit

trad.
simp. #
alternative forms 𡝩

Glyph origin edit

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *qrow): semantic + phonetic (OC *qoːwʔ, *qrow, *qrowʔ).

Pronunciation edit



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /iɑu⁵⁵/
Harbin /iau⁴⁴/
Tianjin /iɑu²¹/
Jinan /iɔ²¹³/
Qingdao /iɔ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /iau²⁴/
Xi'an /iau²¹/
Xining /iɔ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /iɔ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /iɔ³¹/
Ürümqi /iɔ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /iau⁵⁵/
Chengdu /iau⁵⁵/
Guiyang /iao⁵⁵/
Kunming /iɔ⁴⁴/
Nanjing /iɔo³¹/
Hefei /iɔ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /iau¹¹/
Pingyao /iɔ¹³/
Hohhot /iɔ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /iɔ⁵³/
Suzhou /iæ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ʔiɔ³³/
Wenzhou /j̠iɛ³³/
Hui Shexian /iɔ³¹/
Tunxi /io¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /iau³³/
Xiangtan /iaɯ³³/
Gan Nanchang /iɛu⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /iau⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /ieu²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jiu³⁵/
Nanning /jiu⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /jiu³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /iau⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /ieu⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /iau⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /iau³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /iau²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (34)
Final () (92)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter 'jew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔˠiᴇu/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔᵚiɛu/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔiæu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔiaw/
Li
Rong
/ʔjɛu/
Wang
Li
/ĭɛu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔi̯ɛu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yāo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jiu1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 14627
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qrow/

Definitions edit

  1. abnormal or bizarre thing or phenomenon
    事體 [Shanghainese, trad.]
    事体 [Shanghainese, simp.]
    From: 2011, Hu Baotan, 弄堂
    6zy-thi 6lau 1iau-gheq [Wugniu]
    It's quite an odd happenstance.
  2. demon; goblin
      ―  māoyāo  ―  cat goblin
  3. evil and fraudulent
      ―  yāoshù  ―  witchcraft; sorcery
    言惑眾言惑众  ―  yāoyánhuòzhòng  ―  to deceive people with lies and fallacies
  4. (literary) gorgeous; beautiful; charming
  5. (chiefly of women) bizarrely dressed or behaving frivolously
      ―  yāoyāo  ―  seductive and bewitching
  6. (Cantonese, vulgar) yuck! (used in place of its near-homophone (diu2))

Synonyms edit

  • (demon):

Compounds edit

References edit

  1. ^ Wu Fusheng (1998). The Poetics of Decadence: Chinese Poetry of the Southern Dynasties and Late Tang Periods. Albany: State University of New York Press. pp. 47-48

Further reading edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. attractive
  2. bewitching
  3. calamity

Readings edit

Compounds edit

Etymology 1 edit

Noun edit

(およずれ) (oyozureおよづれ (oyodure)?

  1. baseless rumors about a person
  2. short form of (およずれ)(ごと) (oyozuregoto), of the same meaning
Synonyms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Kanji in this term
よう
Grade: S
on’yomi

Pronunciation edit

Affix edit

(よう) (

  1. attractive
  2. bewitching

Korean edit

Etymology edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation edit

Hanja edit

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(yo) (hangeul )

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Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

: Hán Nôm readings: yêu, èo

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