Hanja Analyzer

要 — yo

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
요긴할 요
Romanization
yo
English
necessary, essential; necessity
Mandarin
yào
Japanese on'yomi
ヨウ
Japanese kun'yomi
い.る かなめ
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 4
Newspaper frequency
#106 of 2,500
Strokes
9
Radical
襾 (146, 3 residual)
Unicode
U+8981

Words written with 要

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 要

Japanese data from EDRDG KANJIDIC2 and JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Other hanja read “요”

耀

Other hanja with radical 襾

西