essential
How it’s built
Pictograph of two hands grabbing a woman's waist. The current meaning "want" is a phonetic loan. The original meaning "waist" is now written as 腰.
[character component] — Represents two hands grabbing a waist.
woman; female
Through the ages
Appears in
Characters that use 要 as a component, most common first.
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