堯 — Chinese character
堯
yáo
a legendary ancient emperor-sage
- Pinyin
- yáo
- Radical
- 32 ⼟ (Earth)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 垚 兀
- Formation
- ideographic — A mound 垚 borne by a man 兀; 垚 also provides the pronunciation
- Simplified
- 尧
- Japanese
- 堯 as a kanji
堯 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 5 · Mencius 60 · Zhuangzi 63 · Great Learning 1 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
- Analects 6.28
- Analects 8.19
- Analects 14.45
- Analects 20.1
- Mencius 2A.2
- Mencius 2B.2
- Mencius 3A.1
- Mencius 3A.4
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.