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妖

  • yāo (yao¹) Mandarin, Pinyin
  • ㄧㄠ Mandarin, Bopomofo
  • jiu² Cantonese, Jyutping
  • jiu¹ Cantonese, Jyutping
  • yêu Hakka, Sixian, Phak fa su
  • iáu Min Bei, 建寧羅馬字
  • iĕu Min Dong, Foochow Romanized
  • iau Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • iao¹ Min Nan, Teochew, Peng'im
  • ¹iau Wu, Shanghai, Wugniu
  • yāo Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
  • ㄧㄠ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Bopomofo
  • yao Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Tongyong Pinyin
  • yao¹ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Wade–Giles
  • yāu Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Yale
  • iau Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Gwoyeu Romatsyh
  • яо Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Cyrillic
  • /jɑʊ̯⁵⁵/ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Sinological IPA
  • jiu² Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
  • jiu¹ Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
  • yíu Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
  • yīu Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
  • yiu² Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
  • yiu¹ Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
  • /jiːu̯³⁵/ Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
  • /jiːu̯⁵⁵/ Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
  • yêu Hakka, Miaoli, Phak fa su
  • ieu^ˊ Hakka, Miaoli, Hakka Romanization System

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形聲漢字（上古 *qrow）：意符 女 + 聲符 夭 (上古 *qoːwʔ, *qrow, *qrowʔ) 。

本字為「𡝩」。漢隸右旁的「芺」省作「夭」。

釋義 𡝩

  1. 異常或離奇的事物或現象 妖由人興也。人無釁焉，妖不自作，人棄常則妖興。
  2. 傳說中由生物或物體變成的精怪 貓妖
  3. 怪誕，邪惡，不正 妖術
  4. literary 嫵媚，豔麗 美女妖且閑，采桑歧路間。
  5. 主要指女人 裝束奇怪、儀態不莊重 妖裡妖氣
  6. Cantonese, vulgar 呸！（用來代替近乎同音的屌 (diu2)）

Similar: 凶煞, 凶神, 妖孽, 妖怪, 妖物, 妖精, 妖鬼, 妖魔, 妖魔鬼怪, 孽, 怪物, 惡魔, 恶魔, 煞, 煞神, 精怪, 精靈, 精灵, 邪魔, 鬼仔精, 鬼精, 魔, 魔物, 魔障, 魔鬼

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釋義

Similar: 凶煞, 凶神, 妖孽, 妖怪, 妖物, 妖精, 妖鬼, 妖魔, 妖魔鬼怪, 孽, 怪物, 惡魔, 恶魔, 煞, 煞神, 精怪, 精靈, 精灵, 邪魔, 鬼仔精, 鬼精, 魔, 魔物, 魔障, 魔鬼

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {妖},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/zh/%E5%A6%96},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}