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Ma Lin - Emperor Yao
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Ma Lin
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Great Confucian Figures - Painting of Emperor Yao by Kanō Sansetsu
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Kanō Sansetsu (狩野 山雪 1589–1651)
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EmperorYao2
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Li Ung Bin
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尧

堯
Yáo
proper noun #54,672

Meanings

  1. 1 Yao, a legendary sage-emperor of high antiquity
  2. 2 surname Yao

About Yao

君主 monarch

Sage-king of Chinese tradition, one of the Five Emperors, who passed the throne to the worthy 舜 instead of his own son, the model of 禅让. The pair 尧舜 stands for ideal rule in Chinese writing.

Also called  唐尧、 放勋

Examples

HSK 7-9
尧舜被尊为圣明的君主。
Yáo Shùn bèi zūn wéi shèngmíng de jūnzhǔ.
Yao and Shun are revered as model sage-rulers.
HSK 7-9
传说尧帝把王位禅让给舜。
Chuánshuō Yáo dì bǎ wángwèi shànràng gěi Shùn.
Legend says Emperor Yao ceded the throne to Shun.

Tips

memory
尧 is the sound part of many common characters, all rhyming in -ao: 烧 'burn', 晓 'dawn', 浇 'to water' and 绕 'to wind around'.

Components

ideograph
尧 yáo
legendary emperor Yao
The modern simplified shape does not break into clean parts. The traditional form 堯 stacked three 'earth' graphs over a person, suggesting great height; the 1956 reform replaced the top with a single stylized stroke-cluster. Indexed under Kangxi radical 兀 by tradition, though the radical is not transparent in this simplified form.

Filed under radical 儿 (ér, #10) by convention. 儿 is not a separate component in 尧, so no strokes are highlighted.

In Pop Culture

尧舜 Yáo-Shùn
Two of the legendary sage-emperors of remote antiquity. Their names together stand for ideal moral rulership and the 禅让 ideal of merit-based succession.

Stroke Order

尧 Yáo