窈

窈 U+7A88, 窈
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7A88
← 窇
[U+7A87] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 窉 →
[U+7A89]

Translingual

Han character

窈 (radical 116, 穴+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十金女戈尸 (JCVIS), four-corner 30727, composition ⿱穴幼)

  1. obscure, secluded
  2. refined

References
  • KangXi: page 864, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25463
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1292, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2727, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+7A88

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 窈

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (幼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
黝 *qliw, *qrɯwʔ
坳 *qrɯːw, *qrɯːws
軪 *qrɯːw, *qrɯːws
眑 *qrɯːw, *qrɯwʔ
拗 *qrɯːwʔ, *qrɯːws
鴢 *qrɯːwʔ, *qɯːwʔ
靿 *qrɯːwʔ, *qrɯːws
狕 *qrɯːwʔ
袎 *qrɯːws
怮 *qɯːw, *qrɯw, *qrɯw, *qrɯwʔ
窈 *qiːwʔ
苭 *qɯːwʔ
泑 *qrɯw, *qrɯwʔ
呦 *qrɯw
蚴 *qrɯwʔ
幼 *qrɯws

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qiːwʔ) : semantic 穴 (“cave”) + phonetic 幼 (OC *qrɯws).

Pronunciation
Rime
Character 窈
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 蕭 (93)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 烏皎切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔeuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔeuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔeuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔɛwX/
Li
Rong		 /ʔeuX/
Wang
Li		 /ieuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔieuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yǎo
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 窈
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yǎo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔewX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔˁ[e]wʔ/
English ʔewX-dewX hidden; deep

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 窈
Reading # 1/1
No. 15634
Phonetic
component		 幼
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*qiːwʔ/

Definitions

窈

  1. (literary) profound; far-reaching
  2. (literary) dim; gloomy

Compounds
  • 窈冥
  • 窈娜
  • 窈窈
  • 窈窈冥冥

References

Japanese

Kanji
窈

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings
  • On (unclassified): よう (yō)
  • Kun: くらい (kurai), よい (yoi), あでやか (adeyaka)

Korean

Hanja

窈 • (yo) (hangeul 요, revised yo, McCune–Reischauer yo, Yale yo)

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