U+8981, 要
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8981

[U+8980]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8982]

Translingual

Stroke order
Stroke order

Han character

(radical 146, +3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一田女 (MWV), four-corner 10404, composition)

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 1128, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34768
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1597, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2805, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+8981

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qew
*qew, *qews
*qew, *qews, *qeːw, *qeːwʔ
*qew
*qewʔ
*qeːwʔ
*qeːwʔ
*qeːwʔ

Pictogram (象形) : a woman () with two hands pointing to her midsection.

Original meaning was “waist” (now (OC *qew)). The hands gradually shifted upwards; the in the modern form evolved from the hands and the woman's head.

Pronunciation 1



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2
Initial () (34)
Final () (91)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔiᴇu/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔiɛu/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔjæu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔiaw/
Li
Rong
/ʔiɛu/
Wang
Li
/ĭɛu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔi̯ɛu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yāo
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2
No. 14748
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qew/

Definitions

  1. to demand; to ask; to request
       yāoqiú   to request
  2. to force; to coerce
    /    yāoxié   to threaten, to blackmail
  3. to promise
    /    yāoyuē   to restrict, to agree to a contract/offer/bid
  4. to block; to intercept
    /    yāo   to intercept, to ambush
  5. Alternative form of (“to invite”).
  6. Alternative form of (“waist”).
  7. contract of alliance
       jiǔyāo   former contract
  8. A surname.
  9. to want

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():

Compounds

Pronunciation 2



Rime
Character
Reading # 2/2
Initial () (34)
Final () (91)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔiᴇuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔiɛuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔjæuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔiawH/
Li
Rong
/ʔiɛuH/
Wang
Li
/ĭɛuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔi̯ɛuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yào
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yào
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔjiewH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[q]ew(k)-s/
English important

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
Reading # 2/2
No. 14752
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qews/

Definitions

  1. to want; to wish; to need: to demand
    睡覺 / 睡觉   yào shuìjiào.   I want to sleep.
  2. will; going to (future auxiliary)
       yào zǒu le.   I am going to go.
  3. about to
  4. should; to must; to have to
       yào hē jiǔ.   Don't drink alcohol.
  5. vital; important
       zhòngyào   important
       zhǔyào   main
  6. if; in case of
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of (“to want to”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)
Mandarin Beijing ,
Cantonese Guangzhou ,
Hong Kong ,
Hakka Miaoli (N. Sixian)
Liudui (S. Sixian)
Hsinchu (Hailu)
Dongshi (Dabu)
Hsinchu (Raoping)
Yunlin (Zhao'an)
Min Dong Fuzhou
Min Nan Xiamen
Quanzhou
Zhangzhou
Taipei
Kaohsiung
Tainan
Taichung
Hsinchu
Lukang
Sanxia
Yilan
Kinmen
Magong
Penang
Philippines (Manila)
Chaozhou
Shantou
Wu Wenzhou

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():

Compounds


Japanese

See also 要する

Kanji

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. need, necessity, essential

Readings

Compounds

Noun

(hiragana よう, rōmaji )

  1. cornerstone
  2. requirement

Noun

(hiragana かなめ, rōmaji kaname)

  1. pivot, cornerstone, keystone

Proper noun

(hiragana かなめ, rōmaji Kaname)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

(yo) (hangeul )

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Vietnamese

Han character

(yếu)

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