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"surname Yao" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
尧 堯 yáo surname Yao / Yao or Tang Yao (c. 2200 BC), one of the Five legendary Emperors 五帝[Wu3 Di4], second son of Di Ku 帝嚳|帝喾[Di4 Ku4]
Chinese Pinyin Translation
要 yāo (bound form) to demand / to coerce syn
要 yào to want / to need / to ask for / will / shall / about to / need to / should / if (same as 要是[yao4 shi5]) / (bound form) important syn
么 幺 yāo youngest / most junior / tiny / one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military) / one or ace on dice or dominoes / variant of 吆[yao1], to shout syn
贵姓 貴姓 guì xìng what is your surname? / (May I ask) your surname? syn
膏药 膏藥 gāo yao herbal plaster applied to a wound syn
山药 山藥 shān yao Dioscorea polystachya / yam
四人帮 四人幫 sì rén bāng Gang of Four: Jiang Qing 江青[Jiang1 Qing1], Zhang Chunqiao 張春橋|张春桥[Zhang1 Chun1 qiao2], Yao Wenyuan 姚文元[Yao2 Wen2 yuan2], Wang Hongwen 王洪文[Wang2 Hong2 wen2], who served as scapegoats for the excesses of the cultural revolution
琼瑶 瓊瑤 qióng yáo Chiung Yao (1938-), Taiwanese writer
瑶族 瑤族 yáo zú Yao ethnic group of southwest China and southeast Asia
五帝 wǔ dì the Five Legendary Emperors, usually taken to be the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝[Huang2 di4], Zhuanxu 顓頊|颛顼[Zhuan1 xu1], Di Ku 帝嚳|帝喾[Di4 Ku4], Tang Yao 唐堯|唐尧[Tang2 Yao2] and Yu Shun 虞舜[Yu2 Shun4] syn
姚文元 yáo wén yuán Yao Wenyuan (1931-2005), one of the Gang of Four
药 藥 yào medicine / drug / substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting) / CL:種|种[zhong3],服[fu4],味[wei4] / to poison syn
约 約 yāo to weigh in a balance or on a scale syn
咬 齩 yǎo variant of 咬[yao3] syn
摇 搖 yáo to shake / to rock / to row / to crank syn
腰 yāo the waist and lower back / (bound form) kidney of an animal (as food) / the waist of trousers or a skirt / (metonym) money pouch / pocket / (bound form) the middle section of an upright object (mountain, bottle etc) syn
朴 piáo surname Piao / Korean surname (Park, Pak or Bak) / also pr. [Pu2] syn
妖 yāo goblin / witch / devil / bewitching / enchanting / monster / phantom / demon syn
邀 yāo to invite / to request / to intercept / to solicit / to seek syn
遥 遙 yáo (bound form) distant / remote / far away syn
钥 鑰 yào key syn
幺 么 yāo youngest / most junior / tiny / one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military) / one or ace on dice or dominoes / variant of 吆[yao1], to shout syn
窑 窰 yáo variant of 窯|窑[yao2] syn
舀 yǎo to ladle out / to scoop up syn
耀 yào brilliant / glorious syn
谣 謠 yáo variant of 謠|谣[yao2] syn
夭 殀 yāo to die prematurely (variant of 夭[yao1]) syn
姚 yáo handsome / good-looking
吆 yāo to shout / to bawl / to yell (to urge on an animal) / to hawk (one's wares) syn
鹞 鷂 yào sparrow hawk / Accipiter nisus syn
鳐 鰩 yáo skate (cartilaginous fish belonging to the family Rajidae) / ray (fish)
瑶 瑤 yáo jade / precious stone / mother-of-pearl / nacre / precious / used a complementary honorific
杳 yǎo dark and quiet / disappear syn
肴 餚 yáo variant of 肴[yao2] syn
梁书 梁書 liáng shū History of Liang of the Southern Dynasties, eighth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled by Yao Silian 姚思廉[Yao2 Si1 lian2] in 636 during Tang dynasty, 56 scrolls
姚雪垠 yáo xuě yín Yao Xueyin (1910-1999), PRC novelist, author of historical novel Li Zicheng 李自成
汉姓 漢姓 hàn xìng a Han family name (surname) / (esp.) a Han surname adopted by a person of another ethnic group
山药蛋 山藥蛋 shān yao dàn (dialect) potato / rube / yokel syn
疟 瘧 yào used in 瘧子|疟子[yao4zi5] syn
曜 yào bright / glorious / one of the seven planets of premodern astronomy syn
窈 yǎo (literary) deep / profound / dim (variant of 杳[yao3])
爻 yáo the solid and broken lines of the eight trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], e.g. ☶
徭 yáo compulsory service
崾 yǎo (name of a mountain)
繇 yáo folk-song / forced labor syn
崤 yáo mountain in Henan
铫 銚 yáo weeding tool syn
轺 軺 yáo light carriage
珧 yáo mother-of-pearl
那 nā surname Na syn
老 lǎo prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough / unicode compatibility variant of 老 syn
区 區 ōu surname Ou
单 單 shàn surname Shan syn
某人 mǒu rén someone / a certain person / some people / I (self-address after one's surname) syn
华 華 huà Mount Hua 華山|华山[Hua4 Shan1] in Shaanxi / surname Hua syn
姓名 xìng míng surname and given name / full name syn
巴尔的摩 巴爾的摩 bā ěr dì mó Baltimore (place name, surname etc)
尼克松 ní kè sōng Richard Nixon (1913-1994), US president 1969-1974 / surname Nixon
西门 西門 xī mén two-character surname Ximen
中村 zhōng cūn Nakamura (Japanese surname)
海德 hǎi dé Hyde (surname)
山下 shān xià Yamashita (Japanese surname) syn
波罗 波羅 bō luó Polo (car made by Volkswagen) / surname Polo
铃木 鈴木 líng mù Suzuki (Japanese surname)
布尔 布爾 bù ěr Boole (surname) / (math.) Boolean
田中 tián zhōng Tianzhong Township in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县[Zhang1hua4 Xian4], Taiwan / Tanaka (Japanese surname)
山本 shān běn Yamamoto (Japanese surname)
井上 jǐng shàng Inoue (Japanese surname, pr. "ee-no-oo-ay")
山田 shān tián Yamada (Japanese surname)
莱特 萊特 lái tè Wright (surname)
考克斯 kǎo kè sī Cox (surname)
惠特曼 huì tè màn Whitman (surname) / Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American poet and journalist
班克斯 bān kè sī Banks (surname) / Banksy (UK artist)
强生 強生 qiáng shēng Johnson (surname) / Johnson & Johnson (company)
老总 老總 lǎo zǒng boss / sir (person with a leading role in an organization) / (after a surname) high ranking commander in the PLA / (Qing dynasty) high ranking government official / (old) courteous term used by the general populace in addressing a rank-and-file soldier or police officer syn
小林 xiǎo lín Kobayashi (Japanese surname)
施密特 shī mì tè Schmidt or Schmitt (surname)
和田 hé tián see 和田地區|和田地区[He2tian2 Di4qu1] / Wada (Japanese surname and place name)
高桥 高橋 gāo qiáo Takahashi (Japanese surname)
南宫 南宮 nán gōng two-character surname Nangong / Nangong, county-level city in Xingtai 邢台[Xing2tai2], Hebei
大和 dà hé Yamato, an ancient Japanese province, a period of Japanese history, a place name, a surname etc / Daiwa, a Japanese place name, business name etc
松本 鬆本 sōng běn Matsumoto (Japanese surname and place name)
伊藤 yī téng Itō or Itoh, Japanese surname / Ito-Yokado (supermarket) (abbr. for 伊藤洋華堂|伊藤洋华堂[Yi1teng2 Yang2hua2tang2])
邱吉尔 邱吉爾 qiū jí ěr Winston Churchill (1874-1965), UK politican and prime minister 1940-1945 and 1951-1955 / surname Churchill
渡边 渡邊 dù biān Watanabe (Japanese surname)
吉田 jí tián Yoshida (Japanese surname and place name)
独孤 獨孤 dú gū two-character surname Dugu
诸葛 諸葛 zhū gě two-character surname Zhuge / Taiwan pr. [Zhu1ge2]
桥本 橋本 qiáo běn Hashimoto (Japanese surname and place name)
司马 司馬 sī mǎ Minister of War (official title in pre-Han Chinese states) / two-character surname Sima
夏侯 xià hóu two-character surname Xiahou
弗格森 fú gé sēn Ferguson (surname)
木村 mù cūn Kimura (Japanese surname)
博世 bó shì Bosch (surname) / Bosch, German technology company
轩辕 軒轅 xuān yuán two-character surname Xuanyuan syn
平野 píng yě Hirano (Japanese surname)
藤森 téng sēn Fujimori (Japanese surname) / Alberto Ken'ya Fujimori (1938-), president of Peru 1990-2000
复姓 複姓 fù xìng two-character surname (such as 司馬|司马[Si1ma3] or 諸葛|诸葛[Zhu1ge3]) syn
东郭 東郭 dōng guō two-character surname Dongguo
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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