in English

yáo
jade / precious stone / mother-of-pearl / nacre / precious / used a complementary honorific

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 瑤, the traditional character: 瑶 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 苗瑶语系的语言分布於东南亚和中国南方山区。

    Languages in the Hmong-Mien language family, also referred to as the Miao-Yao language family, are spoken across Southeast Asia and mountainous areas of southern China.

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