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Mythic Mandarin

妖 (yāo): meaning and stroke order

妖 (yāo) means goblin, witch, devil, bewitching, enchanting, monster, phantom, demon.

妖

Simplified
妖
Traditional
妖 (same form)
Pinyin
yāo

Stroke order of 妖

妖

  • yāo goblin; witch
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 妖

  1. yāo
    • goblin
    • witch
    • devil
    • bewitching
    • enchanting
    • monster
    • phantom
    • demon

Radical and structure

妖
Radical 女 (Kangxi radical 38) · 7 strokes · 女 on the left, 夭 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 妖

妖 in our stories

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  • 可是，金山寺的和尚法海一眼就看出白素贞是蛇妖。他认为人和妖非分开不可，就去找许仙，告诉他妻子的真实身份。

    kěshì Jīnshān Sì de héshang Fǎhǎi yìyǎn jiù kàn chū Bái Sùzhēn shì shéyāo tā rènwéi rén hé yāo fēi fēnkāi bùkě jiù qù zhǎo Xǔ Xiān gàosu tā qīzi de zhēnshí shēnfèn

    But Fahai, a monk of Jinshan Temple, saw at a glance that Bai Suzhen was a snake spirit. Believing that humans and spirits simply had to be kept apart, he went to Xu Xian and told him his wife's true identity.

    From the story The Legend of the White Snake HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 妖

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).