yáo

diagrams for divination

Depicts two X shapes used as divinatory diagrams.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (2 of 5 verified)

Iconic (4)

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarthaewN-kˤraw change; hexagram
haewN-kˤraw change; hexagram

說文解字

《說文》:“爻,交也。象《易》六爻頭交也。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica