繇

繇 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 月山竹女火 (BUHVF), four-corner 2279₃, composition ⿰䍃系)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 937, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27856
• Dae Jaweon: page 1377, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3446, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7E47

Originally written 䌛. Now phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *lɯːw, *l'ɯws, *lɯw) : phonetic 䍃 () + semantic 系.

繇

1. (literary) Alternative form of 徭 (yáo, “corvee”)

   • 高祖以吏繇咸陽，吏皆送奉錢三，何獨以五。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     高祖以吏繇咸阳，吏皆送奉钱三，何独以五。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Gāozǔ yǐ lì yáo Xiányáng, lì jiē sòng fèng qián sān, Hé dú yǐ wǔ. [Pinyin]

     Gaozu, as a petty official, was about to go to Xianyang for forced labour. The other petty officials all gave him the money of three [hundred maces]; He alone [gave] five.

2. (literary) Alternative form of 謠／谣 (yáo, “folk song”)
3. (obsolete, of vegetation) lush; flourishing

   alt. forms: 蘨 (yáo)

4. ^† Alternative form of 搖／摇 (yáo, “to shake”)
5. ^† Alternative form of 陶 (yáo)

繇

1. (literary) Alternative form of 由 (yóu)
2. ^† Alternative form of 猷 (yóu, “method; means”)

繇

1. (historical) words of divination; interpretation of hexagrams

   alt. forms: 籀 (zhòu)

繇

1. (alt. form 悠) Used in 繇繇.

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03450
• “繇”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. reason
2. cause

• On (unclassified): よう (yō); ゆう (yū); ゆ (yu); ちゅう (chū); じゅ (ju)
• Kun: したがう (shitagau)

繇 (eum 요 (yo))

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繇: Hán Nôm readings: diêu

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