曜 — Chinese character
曜
yào
bright, glorious; Venus
- Pinyin
- yào
- Radical
- 72 ⽇ (Sun)
- Strokes
- 18
- Components
- 日 翟
- Formation
- ideographic — A spectacular 翟 star 日; 翟 also provides the pronunciation
- Japanese
- 曜 as a kanji
Common words with 曜
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 黑曜石 | hēi yào shí | obsidian (mining) |
| 七曜 | qī yào | the seven planets of premodern astronomy (the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) |
| 黑曜岩 | hēi yào yán | obsidian (mining) |
| 星曜 | xīng yào | heavenly bodies (esp. the sun, moon or five visible planets) |
English words written with 曜
曜 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 3
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.
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