yáo

popular ballad

rumor; variant of 謠|谣[yao2]

speech (讠) + sound yáo (䍃) = ballad or rumor

The speech radical anchors the meaning: words that spread through communities as songs or unverified stories. 䍃 contributes the sound yáo and does not carry semantic weight here.

+
No independent common meaning in modern usePhonetic
SpeechSemantic

这首曲在村子里流传了很多年。

zhè shǒu yáo qǔ zài cūn zi lǐ liú chuán le hěn duō nián。

This folk ballad has been passed around the village for many years.

网上那条言已经被证明是假的。

wǎng shàng nà tiáo yáo yán yǐ jīng bèi zhèng míng shì jiǎ de。

That rumor online has already been proven to be false.

Words with 谣

造谣

zào yáo

to start a rumor

造谣生事

zào yáo shēng shì

to start rumours and create trouble

辟谣

pì yáo

to refute a rumor

黄谣

huáng yáo

sexual rumor (abbr. for 黃色謠言|黄色谣言[huang2 se4 yao2 yan2])

传谣

chuán yáo

to spread rumors

大谣

dà yáo

high-profile rumormonger (esp. on a microblog)

歌谣

gē yáo

folksong

民谣

mín yáo

ballad

童谣

tóng yáo

nursery rhyme

听信谣言

tīng xìn yáo yán

to take heed of idle chatter (idiom)

谣传

yáo chuán

rumor

谣言

yáo yán

rumor

More characters with 讠