餚 meaning and stroke order

yáo

Cooked or prepared meat

Strokes16
Pinyinyáo
ToneTone 2

How to write 餚, stroke by stroke

16 strokes in order. Each box adds the next stroke in red. Write top to bottom and left to right, and finish enclosing strokes last.

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Meaning of 餚

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, grouped by pronunciation.

yáosecond tone (rising)
  1. variant of 肴[yao2]

How 餚 is built

Phono-semantic (sound + meaning) character. Food.

飠 gives the meaning and 肴 hints at the sound.

Radical: 飠 (food), shared by 44 characters on this site.

Common words with 餚

Ordered by HSK level, then by how often they appear in everyday Chinese.

WordPinyinMeaningLevel
菜餚càiyáovegetable and meat dishes; dish

Questions about 餚

How many strokes are in 餚?

餚 is written with 16 strokes. The diagrams on this page number every stroke in the order it is written, with the new stroke shown in red.

What does 餚 mean?

餚 (yáo) means cooked or prepared meat. A common word with it is 菜肴 (càiyáo), meaning "vegetable and meat dishes; dish".

How do you pronounce 餚?

餚 is pronounced yáo, in the second tone (rising).

What is the radical of 餚?

The radical of 餚 is 飠, which carries the idea of "food". Dictionaries list 餚 under this radical.

What is the simplified form of 餚?

餚 is a traditional character. Its simplified form is 肴, used in mainland China and Singapore.