堯

堯 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 土土土山 (GGGU), four-corner 4021₁, composition ⿱垚兀)

• 僥, 嘵, 墝, 嬈, 嶢, 徺, 憢, 撓, 曉, 橈, 澆, 燒, 㹓, 獟, 皢, 䁱, 磽, 穘, 繞, 膮, 蟯, 襓, 譊, 蹺, 鐃, 隢, 饒, 驍, 髐, 鱙, 䶧, 趬, 遶, 䰫, 顤, 䴃, 翹, 㚁, 嶤, 蕘
• 𪞭, 𢴽, 𣩦, 𤩊, 𥪯, 𦉗, 𦒒, 𦪛, 𨊅, 𨎬, 𬴝, 𣦥, 𠨪, 𡗊, 𣍕, 𫤦, 𣠎, 𫊐, 𤴀, 𪸊, 𬇆, 𬩱, 𠟋, 𢿣, 𢿲, 𣫁, 𫶺, 𡓖, 𧹅, 𧢬, 𠢩, 𡭄, 𫾤, 𥋈, 𧑣, 𭐆, 𩀸, 𡗉, 𫤣, 𠓘, 𡽧, 𨷁, 𡈦, 𡪩, 𬁕, 𦒏, 𩯆

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 234, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5272
• Dae Jaweon: page 471, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 459, character 14
• Unihan data for U+582F

Historical forms of the character 堯
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Ancient script	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋeːw) : phonetic 垚 (OC *ŋeːw) + semantic 兀 (“towering and bald”). Also an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 垚 (“tall (of earth)”) + 兀 (“towering and bald”).

The oracle bone script consists of two 土 (“soil; earth”) at the top and one 兀 at the bottom.

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堯

1. ^‡ lofty; high
2. Emperor Yao, legendary ruler of ancient China
3. a surname
4. (Mainland China) yotta- (SI unit prefix)

   Synonym: 佑 (yòu) (Taiwan)

• “堯”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00786

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 尭)

1. high
2. far

• Go-on: ぎょう (gyō)^{←げう (geu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ぎょう (gyō)^{←げう (geu, historical)}
• Kun: たかい (takai, 堯い)

堯 • (yo) (hangeul 요, revised yo, McCune–Reischauer yo)

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堯: Hán Nôm readings: nghiêu, nghẻo, nghễu, nhao, nhiều

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