窈

窈 U+7A88, 窈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7A88 ← 窇 [U+7A87] CJK Unified Ideographs 窉 → [U+7A89]

Translingual

Han character

窈 (Kangxi radical 116, 穴+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十金女戈尸 (JCVIS), four-corner 3072₇, composition ⿱穴幼)

1. obscure, secluded
2. refined

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 864, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25463
• Dae Jaweon: page 1292, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2727, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7A88

Chinese

trad.		窈
simp. #		窈

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (幼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
黝	*qliw, *qrɯwʔ
坳	*qrɯːw, *qrɯːws
軪	*qrɯːw, *qrɯːws
眑	*qrɯːw, *qrɯwʔ
拗	*qrɯːwʔ, *qrɯːws
鴢	*qrɯːwʔ, *qɯːwʔ
靿	*qrɯːwʔ, *qrɯːws
狕	*qrɯːwʔ
袎	*qrɯːws
怮	*qɯːw, *qrɯw, *qrɯw, *qrɯwʔ
窈	*qiːwʔ
苭	*qɯːwʔ
泑	*qrɯw, *qrɯwʔ
呦	*qrɯw
蚴	*qrɯwʔ
幼	*qrɯws

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qiːwʔ) : semantic 穴 (“cave”) + phonetic 幼 (OC *qrɯws).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǎo (yao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jiu² / miu⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǎo
    • Wade–Giles: yao³
    • Yale: yǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeau
    • Palladius: яо (jao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jiu² / miu⁵
    • Yale: yíu / míuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jiu² / miu⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: yiu² / miu⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːu̯³⁵/, /miːu̯¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: 'ewX

Rime
Character	窈
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	蕭 (93)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	烏皎切
Baxter	'ewX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔeuX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔeuX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔeuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɛwX/
Li Rong	/ʔeuX/
Wang Li	/ieuX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔieuX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yǎo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jiu2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔˤ[e]wʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qiːwʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	窈
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yǎo
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔewX ›
Old Chinese	/*ʔˁ[e]wʔ/
English	ʔewX-dewX hidden; deep
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	窈
Reading #	1/1
No.	15634
Phonetic component	幼
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*qiːwʔ/

Definitions

窈

1. (literary) profound; far-reaching
2. (literary) dim; gloomy

Compounds

• 窈冥
• 窈娜
• 窈窈
• 窈窈冥冥
• 窈窕 (yǎotiǎo)
• 窈窕淑女 (yǎotiǎoshūnǚ)

 

References

• “窈”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

窈

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): よう (yō)
• Kun: くらい (kurai)、よい (yoi)、あでやか (adeyaka)

Korean

Hanja

窈 (eum 요 (yo))

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