夭 — Chinese character
夭
yāo
young, energetic; to die young
- Pinyin
- yāo
- Radical
- 37 ⼤ (Big)
- Strokes
- 4
- Components
- 丿 大
- Formation
- pictographic — A person with head tilted - leaning forward, running, energetic
- Japanese
- 夭 as a kanji
Common words with 夭
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 夭折 | yāo zhé | to die young or prematurely; to come to a premature end |
| 逃之夭夭 | táo zhī yāo yāo | to escape without trace (idiom); to make one's getaway (from the scene of a crime); to show a clean pair of heels |
| 早夭 | zǎo yāo | to die young |
| 夭寿 (夭壽) | yāo shòu | to die young; (Tw) (curse word) drop dead |
| 夭亡 | yāo wáng | to die young |
| 夭殇 (夭殤) | yāo shāng | to die young |
| 靠夭 | kào yāo | variant of 靠腰 (kào yāo) |
夭 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 2 · Zhuangzi 14 · Great Learning 2
- Analects 7.4
- Zhuangzi Transcendental Bliss
- Zhuangzi The Identity of Contraries
- Zhuangzi Man Among Men
- Zhuangzi The Great Supreme
- Zhuangzi How to Govern
- Zhuangzi The Universe
- Zhuangzi The Circling Sky
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.