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幺

幺

See also: 么 and ㄠ

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

幺 (radical 52 幺+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 女戈 (VI))

  1. one
  2. tiny, small
  3. Kangxi radical #52, ⼳ ‎(“short thread”).

Usage notes

么 is used instead of 幺 in mahjong.

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 341, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9189
  • Dae Jaweon: page 650, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1092, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+5E7A

Chinese

trad. 幺/么
simp. 幺

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 幺
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 蕭 (93)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 於堯切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔeu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔeu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔeu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔɛw/
Li
Rong		 /ʔeu/
Wang
Li		 /ieu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔieu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yāo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 幺
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yāo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔew ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔˤ[i]w/
English small (Shuōwén)

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 幺
Reading # 1/1
No. 14618
Phonetic
component		 幺
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 幺
Old
Chinese		 /*qiːw/

Adjective

幺

  1. tiny; minute
    幺麼 / 幺麽  ―  yāomó  ―  small; minute
  2. youngest
    老幺  ―  lǎoyāo  ―  informal manner of referring to the last (youngest) child in a family

Noun

幺

  1. one (an alternative way of saying the numeral, especially on the phone or in the military)
  2. ace; one on dice or dominoes

Proper noun

幺

  1. A surname​.

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 幺 – see 糸.
(This character, 幺, is a variant form of 糸.)

References

Japanese

Kanji

幺

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

幺 • ‎(yo) (hangeul 요, revised yo, McCune-Reischauer yo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

幺 (yêu)

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