姚

handsome; good-looking

9 strokes Dict coverage rank #2,986 U+59DA

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

女 (semantic, “woman”) + 兆 (phonetic, zhào)

components: 女兆

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Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 兆

Siblings built with the same phonetic component 兆 (zhào) — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
兆 sound component	zhào	omen; mega-, million
跳	tiào	to hop, to skip; to jump, to leap; to vault; to dance
桃	táo	peach; marriage; surname
逃	táo	to abscond, to dodge, to escape, to flee
挑	tiāo	to select, to choose; picky, choosy; a load
洮	táo	to cleanse; a river in Gansu province
眺	tiào	to gaze, to look at; to scan, to survey
窕	tiǎo	slender; quiet, modest; charming
铫	yáo	hoe; spear; surname
珧	yáo	mother-of-pearl
晁	cháo	morning, dawn; surname
祧	tiāo	ancestral hall
鼗	táo	small revolving drum with knobs

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
大姚县	Dà yáo Xiàn	Dayao, a county in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture 楚雄彝族自治州[Chu3 xiong2 Yi2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 …
姚安县	Yáo ān Xiàn	Yao'an, a county in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture 楚雄彝族自治州[Chu3 xiong2 Yi2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4…
姚文元	Yáo Wén yuán	Yao Wenyuan (1931-2005), one of the Gang of Four
余姚市	Yú yáo Shì	Yuyao, a county-level city in Ningbo City 寧波市\|宁波市[Ning2 bo1 Shi4], Zhejiang
大姚	Dà yáo	see 大姚縣\|大姚县[Da4 yao2 Xian4]
姚安	Yáo ān	see 姚安縣\|姚安县[Yao2 an1 Xian4]
姚明	Yáo Míng	Yao Ming (1980-), retired Chinese basketball player, played for CBA Shanghai Sharks 1997-2…
姚思廉	Yáo Sī lián	Yao Silian (557-637), Tang writer and compiler of 梁書\|梁书[Liang2 shu1] and 陳書\|陈书[Chen2 shu1]
余姚	Yú yáo	see 餘姚市\|余姚市[Yu2 yao2 Shi4]
姚滨	Yáo Bīn	Yao Bin (1957-), PRC champion ice skater during early 1980s and more recently national ska…
姚雪垠	Yáo Xuě yín	Yao Xueyin (1910-1999), PRC novelist, author of historical novel Li Zicheng 李自成