尧

Translingual

Etymology

Simplified from 堯 (垚 → 戈); simplified component is rather “戈 without 丶”.

Han character

尧 (radical 43 尢+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 十心一山 (JPMU))

1. a legendary ancient emperor-sage

Derived characters

• 烧

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 298, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 552, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5C27

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Cantonese

Hanzi

尧 (traditional 堯, Yale yiu4)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

尧 (traditional 堯, pinyin yáo (yao2), Wade-Giles yao²)

Last modified on 10 October 2012, at 08:43