| 幺 | ||
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| 幺 (U+5E7A) "short, tiny" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | yāo | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄧㄠ | |
| Wade–Giles: | yao1 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | yiū | |
| Jyutping: | jiu1 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | iau | |
| Japanese Kana: | ヨウ yō (on'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 요 yo | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | 幺字旁 yāozìpáng | |
| Japanese name(s): | 糸頭/いとがしら itogashira | |
| Hangul: | 작을 jageul | |
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Radical 52 or radical short thread (幺部) meaning "short" or "tiny" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of three strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 50 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
幺 is also the 59th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.