| 繇 | |||
| reason, cause | |||
| Radical | 糸糹纟 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 11 | Total Strokes | 17 |
| Mandarin reading | yaó yoú zhoù yaō | Cantonese reading | jau4 jiu4 zau6 |
| Japanese on reading | you yuu yu chuu ju | Japanese kun reading | shitagau |
| Korean reading | yo | Vietnamese reading | |
| 繇 | |||
| reason, cause | |||
| Radical | 糸糹纟 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 11 | Total Strokes | 17 |
| Mandarin reading | yaó yoú zhoù yaō | Cantonese reading | jau4 jiu4 zau6 |
| Japanese on reading | you yuu yu chuu ju | Japanese kun reading | shitagau |
| Korean reading | yo | Vietnamese reading | |
| 繇 | [ yaó ] folk-song, forced labor |
| 繇 | [ yoú ] cause, means |
| 繇 | [ zhoù ] interpretations of the trigrams |
| ⇒ 張僧繇 | [ zhāng sēng yoú ] Zhang Sengyou (active c. 490-540), one of the Four Great Painters of the Six Dynasties 六朝四大家 |
| ⇒ 自繇自在 | [ zì yoú zì zai ] free and easy (idiom); carefree, leisurely |
| ⇒ 鍾繇 | [ zhōng yaó ] Zhong Yao (151-230), minister of Cao Wei 曹魏[Cao2 Wei4] and noted calligrapher, said to have developed the regular script 楷書|楷书[kai3 shu1] |