# 窈

| 窈 | U+7A88, &#31368; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7A88 |
| ← 窇 [U+7A87] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 窉 → [U+7A89] |

## Translingual
### Han character

窈 (Kangxi radical 116, 穴+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十金女戈尸 (JCVIS), four-corner 3072$_7$, composition ⿱穴幼)
* obscure, secluded
* refined

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 864, character 22
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25463
* Dae Jaweon: page 1292, character 20
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2727, character 7
* Unihan data for U+7A88

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 黝 | *qliw, *qrɯwʔ |
| 坳 | *qrɯːw, *qrɯːws |
| 軪 | *qrɯːw, *qrɯːws |
| 眑 | *qrɯːw, *qrɯwʔ |
| 拗 | *qrɯːwʔ, *qrɯːws |
| 鴢 | *qrɯːwʔ, *qɯːwʔ |
| 靿 | *qrɯːwʔ, *qrɯːws |
| 狕 | *qrɯːwʔ |
| 袎 | *qrɯːws |
| 怮 | *qɯːw, *qrɯw, *qrɯw, *qrɯwʔ |
| 窈 | *qiːwʔ |
| 苭 | *qɯːwʔ |
| 泑 | *qrɯw, *qrɯwʔ |
| 呦 | *qrɯw |
| 蚴 | *qrɯwʔ |
| 幼 | *qrɯws |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qiːwʔ) : semantic 穴 (“cave”) + phonetic 幼 (OC *qrɯws).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yǎo (yao$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄧㄠˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jiu$^2$ / miu$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yǎo
*** Zhuyin: ㄧㄠˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yǎo
*** Wade–Giles: yao$^3$
*** Yale: yǎu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeau
*** Palladius: яо (jao)
*** Sinological IPA : /jɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jiu$^2$ / miu$^5$
*** Yale: yíu / míuh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jiu$^2$ / miu$^5$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yiu$^2$ / miu$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /jiːu̯³⁵/, /miːu̯¹³/
* Middle Chinese: 'ewX
Rime :
| Character | 窈 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 影 (34) |
| Final (韻) | 蕭 (93) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | IV |
| Fanqie | 烏皎切 |
| Baxter | 'ewX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʔeu$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʔeu$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ʔeu$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʔɛw$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /ʔeu$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /ieu$^X$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ʔieu$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yǎo |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | jiu$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔˤ[e]wʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*qiːwʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 窈 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | yǎo |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ ʔew$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*ʔˁ[e]wʔ/ |
| English | ʔewX-dewX hidden; deep |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 窈 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 15634 |
| Phonetic component | 幼 |
| Rime group | 幽 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | |
| Old Chinese | /*qiːwʔ/ |

### Definitions

窈
* (literary) profound; far-reaching
* (literary) dim; gloomy

#### Compounds

* 窈冥
* 窈娜
* 窈窈
* 窈窈冥冥
* 窈窕 (yǎotiǎo)
* 窈窕淑女 (yǎotiǎoshūnǚ)

### References

* “窈”, 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–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): よう (yō)
* Kun: くらい (kurai)、よい (yoi)、あでやか (adeyaka)

## Korean
### Hanja

窈 (eum 요 (yo))
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