杳 — Chinese character
杳
yǎo
dark, mysterious, obscure; deep
- Pinyin
- yǎo
- Radical
- 75 ⽊ (Tree)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 木 日
- Formation
- ideographic — The sun 日 setting below the woods 木
- Japanese
- 杳 as a kanji
Common words with 杳
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 杳无音信 (杳無音信) | yǎo wú yīn xìn | to have no news whatever |
| 杳无人迹 (杳無人跡) | yǎo wú rén jì | (idiom) without trace of human presence; uninhabited; deserted |
| 杳然 | yǎo rán | quiet, silent, and lonely; far and indistinct |
| 杳冥 | yǎo míng | dim and dusky; far and indistinct |
| 杳如黄鹤 (杳如黃鶴) | yǎo rú huáng hè | to be gone forever (idiom); to disappear without a trace |
| 杳杳 | yǎo yǎo | deep and somber; see also 窈窈 (yǎo yǎo) |
| 杳渺 | yǎo miǎo | dimly discernible |
| 杳无人烟 (杳無人煙) | yǎo wú rén yān | see 杳无人迹 (yǎo wú rén jì) |
| 杳无消息 (杳無消息) | yǎo wú xiāo xī | see 杳无音信 (yǎo wú yīn xìn) |
| 杳眇 | yǎo miǎo | variant of 杳渺 (yǎo miǎo) |
| 杳茫 | yǎo máng | distant and out of sight |
| 杳霭 (杳靄) | yǎo ǎi | far and deep |
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.