yǎo
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 a variety of grass

Examples

Yǎo gǔshū
This character names a kind of grass recorded in old texts.
Yǎo
Wild grass grew thick along the riverbank.

Tips

usage
is a very rare character naming a kind of grass. An old secondary reading zhuó exists only as a variant of another obscure grain character; it is not used in modern Chinese.

Components

radical
cǎo
grass; plant
is the grass radical in top form. It marks this rare character as the name of a plant, here a kind of grass.
phonetic
dào
rice plant
The lower part shares the grain-and-mortar shape of ; it supplies an approximate sound and links the character loosely to the cereal-grass group, with no precise meaning here.

Stroke Order

yǎo