12345678910KeywordobscuresecludedquietrefinedFrequency#4780Strokes10ReadingsyǎoMnemonic穴 (cave) gives the meaning and 幼 the sound.Stroke orderComposed of穴cave幼youngUsed in vocabulary窈窕yǎotiǎo(literary) (of a woman) graceful and refined; comely; (esp.) slender; slim; (literary) (of a bower, a mountain stream or a boudoir within a palace etc) secluded窈yǎo(literary) deep; profound; dim (variant of 杳 (yǎo))