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摇 (yáo): meaning and stroke order

摇 (yáo) means to shake, to rock, to row, to crank, surname Yao.

摇

Simplified
摇
Traditional
搖
Pinyin
yáo

Stroke order of 摇

摇

  • Yáo surname Yao
  • yáo to shake; to rock
  • 13 strokes
  • Traditional form: 搖

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 摇

  1. yáo Traditional 搖
    • to shake
    • to rock
    • to row
    • to crank
  2. Yáo Traditional 搖
    • surname Yao

Radical and structure

摇
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 13 strokes · 扌 on the left, 䍃 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 摇

摇 in our stories

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  • 庞师傅却摇了摇头，从柜子最里面拿出一只旧碗，碗上歪歪扭扭地排着十几颗铜钉。

    Páng shīfu què yáo le yáotóu cóng guìzi zuì lǐmiàn ná chū yì zhī jiù wǎn wǎn shàng wāiwāi-niǔniǔ de pái zhe shíjǐ kē tóng dīng

    But Master Pang shook his head and took an old bowl from the back of a cupboard; a dozen copper rivets ran crookedly across it.

    From the story Mending the bowl HSK 7–9 · Level 9

  • 艄公却摇了摇头：“我在这里撑了四十年船，真正变成龙的鲤鱼，一条也没见过。可黄河里的鱼，何尝少过？”

    shāogōng què yáo le yáo tóu wǒ zài zhèli chēng le sìshí nián chuán zhēnzhèng biànchéng lóng de lǐyú yì tiáo yě méi jiàn guò kě Huáng Hé lǐ de yú hécháng shǎo guò

    The boatman shook his head. "I've poled a boat here for forty years and never seen a single carp really turn into a dragon. Yet when have there ever been fewer fish in the Yellow River?"

    From the story The Dragon Gate and the ordinary fish HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 摇

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).