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幺
么
yāo
1. youngest
2. most junior
3. tiny
4. one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military)
5. one or ace on dice or dominoes
6. variant of [[吆<yāo>]], to shout
Common • Top 7% ✏️ 3 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

幺
yāo
one; tiny, small
3 丶

Compound Words (6)

幺二
yāoèr
one-two or ace-deuce (smallest throw at dice)
幺点
yāodiǎn
ace
对幺
duìyāo
pair of aces (in dominoes)
老幺
lǎoyāo
youngest
幺并矢
yāobìngshǐ
idemfactor (expressing a vector as sum of its three orthogonal projections)
幺麽小丑
yāomóxiǎochǒu
insignificant wretch

Alternate Entries

幺
Yāo
surname Yao

Metadata

Category
Chinese
Character Frequency Rank
4,504
Word Frequency Rank
6,283 of 84,292
Radical Number
52