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Old Chinese
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笑
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*sqʰows
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夭
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*qoːwʔ, *qrow, *qrowʔ
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镺
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*qoːwʔ, *qoːws
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芺
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*qoːwʔ, *qrowʔ
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妖
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*qrow
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祅
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*qrow
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枖
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*qrow
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訞
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*qrow
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殀
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*qrowʔ
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仸
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*qrowʔ
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妋
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*pa, *qu
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飫
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*qos
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沃
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*qoːwɢ
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鋈
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*qoːwɢ
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *qrow) : semantic 女 + phonetic 夭 (OC *qoːwʔ, *qrow, *qrowʔ).
Zhengzhang system (2003)
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Character
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妖
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Reading #
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1/1
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No.
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14627
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Phonetic component
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夭
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Rime group
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宵
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Rime subdivision
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3
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Corresponding MC rime
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妖
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Old Chinese
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/*qrow/
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妖
- abnormal or bizarre thing or phenomenon
事體老妖個。 [Shanghainese, trad.]
事体老妖个。 [Shanghainese, simp.]- From: 2011, Hu Baotan, 弄堂
- 6zy-thi 6lau 1iau-gheq [Wugniu]
- It's quite an odd happenstance.
- demon; goblin
- 貓妖/猫妖 ― māoyāo ― cat goblin
- evil and fraudulent
- 妖術/妖术 ― yāoshù ― witchcraft; sorcery
- 妖言惑眾/妖言惑众 ― yāoyánhuòzhòng ― to deceive people with lies and fallacies
- (literary) gorgeous; beautiful; charming
- (chiefly of women) bizarrely dressed or behaving frivolously
- 妖裡妖氣/妖里妖气 ― yāolǐyāoqì ― seductive and bewitching
- (Cantonese, vulgar) yuck! (used in place of its near-homophone 屌 (diu2))
- 凶煞 (xiōngshà) (literally or figuratively)
- 凶神 (xiōngshén) (literally or figuratively)
- 妖孽 (yāoniè)
- 妖怪 (yāoguài)
- 妖物 (yāowù)
- 妖精 (yāojīng)
- 妖鬼 (yāoguǐ)
- 妖魔 (yāomó)
- 孽 (niè) (literary, or in compounds)
- 怪物 (guàiwu)
- 惡魔/恶魔 (èmó) (literally or figuratively)
- 煞 (Taiwanese Hokkien)
- 煞神 (shàshén) (literary, literally or figuratively)
- 精怪 (jīngguài)
- 精靈/精灵 (jīnglíng)
- 邪魔 (xiémó)
- 魔 (mó) (literary, or in compounds)
- 魔障 (mózhàng) (Buddhism)
- 魔鬼 (móguǐ) (literally or figuratively)
- ^ Wu Fusheng (1998). The Poetics of Decadence: Chinese Poetry of the Southern Dynasties and Late Tang Periods. Albany: State University of New York Press. pp. 47-48
妖
(Jōyō kanji)
- attractive
- bewitching
- calamity
- Go-on: よう (yō, Jōyō)←えう (eu, historical)
- Kan-on: よう (yō, Jōyō)←えう (eu, historical)
- Kun: あやしい (ayashii, 妖しい, Jōyō); およずれ (oyozure, 妖)←およづれ (oyodure, 妖, historical); なまめく (namameku, 妖めく); わざわい (wazawai, 妖い)←わざはひ (wazafafi, 妖ひ, historical)
Compounds
- 妖人 (oyozurebito): a person who leads others astray with their words
- 妖異 (yōi): something strange and mysterious; a monster or phantom
- 妖艶 (yōen), 妖婉 (yōen): bewitchingly attractive; seductive
- 妖花 (yōka): a strangely beautiful flower; metaphorically, a strangely beautiful woman
- 妖怪 (yōkai): a monster, a phantom
- 妖気 (yōki): a weird or unearthly feeling
- 妖姫 (yōki): a seductively beautiful princess, a distractingly attractive woman
- 妖狐 (yōko): a demon fox, kitsune
- 妖犬 (yōken): a demon dog, such as the inugami or yamainu
- 妖猫 (yōbyō): a demon cat, such as the bakeneko, nekomata or kasha
- 妖教 (yōkyō): a religion that leads people astray; heresy
- 妖孽 (yōgetsu): a strange calamity; an omen or portent of misfortune
- 妖言 (yōgen), 妖言 (oyozuregoto): a malicious rumor
- 妖光 (yōkō): a strange and inauspicious light
- 妖術 (yōjutsu): witchcraft, sorcery
- 妖法 (yōhō)
- 妖道 (yōdō)
- 妖術師 (yōjutsushi): a witch, a sorcerer
- 妖女 (yōjo): a seductively or distractingly beautiful woman; a vamp; a female fairy, a siren
- 妖星 (yōsei): an inauspicious or unlucky star
- 妖精 (yōsei): fairy
- 妖精症 (yōseishō): (medical): leprechaunism, a manifestation of secondary insulin resistance
- 妖美 (yōbi): seductively beautiful
- 妖婦 (yōfu): a seductress, a vamp
- 妖変 (yōhen): a strange accident, emergency, or calamity
- 妖魔 (yōma): a monster, a demon
- 妖冶, 妖艶, 妖婉 (yōya): bewitchingly attractive; seductive
- 妖厄神 (yōyakujin): a god of disaster and calamity; a god of disease and misfortune
- 妖霊 (yōrei): an evil spirit; a phantom
- 妖霊星, 妖星 (yōreiboshi): an inauspicious or unlucky star
- 妖麗, 妖美 (yōrei): seductively beautiful
- 妖化 (yōka): a demonic entity or transformation
妖 • (oyozure) ←およづれ (oyodure)?
- baseless rumors about a person
- short form of 妖言 (oyozuregoto), of the same meaning
妖 • (yō)
- attractive
- bewitching
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)
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妖: Hán Nôm readings: yêu, èo
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