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堯

堯

See also: 尧

Translingual

Traditional 堯
Shinjitai 尭
Simplified 尧

Han character

堯 (radical 32 土+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 土土土山 (GGGU), four-corner 40211, composition ⿱垚兀)

  1. a legendary ancient emperor-sage

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 234, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5272
  • Dae Jaweon: page 471, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 459, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+582F

Chinese

trad. 堯
simp. 尧

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (垚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
撓 *hŋaːw, *rŋaːw, *rnaːwʔ
鐃 *rŋaːw
譊 *rŋaːw
橈 *rŋaːws, *ŋjew
磽 *ŋ̥ʰreːw, *ŋreːws, *ŋ̥ʰeːwʔ
墝 *ŋ̥ʰreːw
穘 *hŋreːw
顤 *hŋreːw, *ŋeːws
燒 *hŋjew, *hŋjaws
饒 *ŋjew, *ŋjaws
蟯 *ŋjew, *ʔŋew
蕘 *ŋjew
襓 *ŋjew
繞 *ŋjewʔ, *ŋjaws
遶 *ŋjewʔ
嬈 *njewʔ, *neːwʔ, *hŋeːws
趬 *ŋ̥ʰew, *ŋ̥ʰews
蹺 *ŋ̥ʰew
翹 *ɡew, *ɡews
澆 *ŋkeːw, *ŋeːws
驍 *ŋkeːw
僥 *kŋeːwʔ, *ŋeːw
堯 *ŋeːw
垚 *ŋeːw
嶢 *ŋeːw
獟 *ŋeːws
膮 *hŋeːw, *hŋeːwʔ
嘵 *hŋeːw
憢 *hŋeːw
曉 *hŋeːwʔ
皢 *hŋeːwʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 垚 + 兀.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 堯
Mandarin Beijing /iau³⁵/
Harbin /iau²⁴/
Tianjin /iɑu⁴⁵/
Jinan /iɔ⁴²/
Qingdao /iɔ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /iau⁴²/
Xi'an /iau²⁴/
Xining /iɔ²⁴/
Yinchuan /iɔ⁵³/
Lanzhou /iɔ⁵³/
Ürümqi /ʐɔ⁵¹/
Wuhan /iau²¹³/
Chengdu /iau³¹/
Guiyang /iao²¹/
Kunming /iɔ³¹/
Nanjing /iɔo²⁴/
Hefei /iɔ⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /iau¹¹/
Pingyao
Hohhot /iɔ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɦiɔ²³/
/ȵiɔ²³/
Suzhou /ɦiæ¹³/
Hangzhou /ȵiɔ²¹³/
Wenzhou /ȵa³¹/
Hui Shexian /niɔ⁴⁴/
Tunxi /io⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /iau¹³/
Xiangtan /iaɯ¹²/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /ŋiau¹¹/
Taoyuan /ŋieu²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jiu²¹/
Nanning /jiu²¹/
Hong Kong /jiu²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /giau³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /ŋieu⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /iau²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ŋiãu⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /zau³¹/
Rime
Character 堯
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 蕭 (93)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 五聊切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋeu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋeu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋeu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋɛw/
Li
Rong		 /ŋeu/
Wang
Li		 /ŋieu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋieu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yáo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 堯
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yáo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ngew ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ŋ]ˤew/
English high

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 堯
Reading # 1/1
No. 14689
Phonetic
component		 垚
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 堯
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋeːw/

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堯

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Japanese

Kanji

堯

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

堯 • ‎(yo) (hangeul 요, revised yo, McCune-Reischauer yo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

堯 (nghiêu, nghẻo, nghễu, nhao, nhiều)

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