窈 — Chinese character
窈
yǎo
obscure, secluded; quiet, refined
- Pinyin
- yǎo
- Radical
- 116 ⽳ (Cave)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 穴 幼
- Formation
- pictophonetic — cave; meaning component 穴; sound component 幼
- Japanese
- 窈 as a kanji
Common words with 窈
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 窈窕 | yǎo tiǎo | (literary) (of a woman) graceful and refined; comely; (esp.) slender; slim; (literary) (of a bower, a mountain stream or a boudoir within a palace etc) secluded |
| 窈冥 | yǎo míng | variant of 杳冥 (yǎo míng) |
| 窈窈 | yǎo yǎo | obscure; dusky |
| 窈霭 (窈靄) | yǎo ǎi | variant of 杳霭 (yǎo ǎi) |
窈 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 1 · Zhuangzi 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.