姚
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handsome; good-looking
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 女 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 姚
- Common rank
- #2,986
- Unicode
- U+59DA
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 姚
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大姚县 | Dayao, a county in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture 楚雄彝族自治州[Chu3 xiong2 Yi2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 … | |
| 姚安县 | Yao'an, a county in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture 楚雄彝族自治州[Chu3 xiong2 Yi2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4… | |
| 姚文元 | Yao Wenyuan (1931-2005), one of the Gang of Four | |
| 余姚市 | Yuyao, a county-level city in Ningbo City 寧波市|宁波市[Ning2 bo1 Shi4], Zhejiang | |
| 大姚 | see 大姚縣|大姚县[Da4 yao2 Xian4] | |
| 姚安 | see 姚安縣|姚安县[Yao2 an1 Xian4] | |
| 姚明 | Yao Ming (1980-), retired Chinese basketball player, played for CBA Shanghai Sharks 1997-2… | |
| 姚思廉 | Yao Silian (557-637), Tang writer and compiler of 梁書|梁书[Liang2 shu1] and 陳書|陈书[Chen2 shu1] | |
| 余姚 | see 餘姚市|余姚市[Yu2 yao2 Shi4] | |
| 姚滨 | Yao Bin (1957-), PRC champion ice skater during early 1980s and more recently national ska… | |
| 姚雪垠 | Yao Xueyin (1910-1999), PRC novelist, author of historical novel Li Zicheng 李自成 |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 兆 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 兆 sound part | omen; mega-, million | |
| 跳 | to hop, to skip; to jump, to leap; to vault; to dance | |
| 桃 | peach; marriage; surname | |
| 逃 | to abscond, to dodge, to escape, to flee | |
| 挑 | to select, to choose; picky, choosy; a load | |
| 洮 | to cleanse; a river in Gansu province | |
| 眺 | to gaze, to look at; to scan, to survey | |
| 窕 | slender; quiet, modest; charming | |
| 铫 | hoe; spear; surname | |
| 珧 | mother-of-pearl | |
| 晁 | morning, dawn; surname | |
| 祧 | ancestral hall | |
| 鼗 | small revolving drum with knobs |