夭閼

Chinese

		tender; gentle; to die prematurely	first wives of xiong-nu chiefs; shut; stop
trad. (夭閼)		夭	閼
simp. (夭阏)		夭	阏

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǎo'è

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄠˇ ㄜˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǎo'è
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄠˇ ㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǎo-è
    • Wade–Giles: yao³-o⁴
    • Yale: yǎu-è
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeaueh
    • Palladius: яоэ (jaoe)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ˀɤ⁵¹/

Verb

夭閼

1. to stop; to block; to cut off
2. to die young

Synonyms

• (to stop):

• 中斷／中断 (zhōngduàn)
• 中止 (zhōngzhǐ)
• 休止 (xiūzhǐ)
• 停 (tíng)
• 停歇 (tíngxiē)
• 停止 (tíngzhǐ)
• 干休 (gānxiū) (literary)
• 放煞 (Min Nan)
• 斷站／断站 (Xiamen Hokkien)
• 斷節／断节 (Xiamen Hokkien)
• 暫停／暂停 (zàntíng) (temporarily)
• 歇 (xiē)
• 止 (zhǐ) (literary, or in compounds)
• 止息 (zhǐxī)
• 止煞 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 瀦／潴 (Quanzhou Hokkien)
• 煞 (Hokkien)
• 煞手 (Hokkien)
• 甘休 (gānxiū) (to be willing to give up)
• 終止／终止 (zhōngzhǐ)
• 絕／绝 (jué) (literary, or in compounds)
• 罷／罢
• 罷休／罢休 (bàxiū) (chiefly in the negative)
• 罷手／罢手 (bàshǒu)
• 間斷／间断
• 須／须 (xū) (literary)
• 頓／顿

 

• (to die young):

• 夭壽／夭寿 (yāoshòu)
• 夭壽死／夭寿死 (Quanzhou Hokkien)
• 夭折
• 夭逝 (literary)
• 早夭
• 早死 (zǎosǐ)
• 短命 (duǎnmìng)