要么 (yào me)

Character breakdown

• 要 (yāo) · 9 strokes

  Pictograph of two hands grabbing a woman's (女) waist. The current meaning "want" is a phonetic loan. The original meaning "waist" is now written as 腰.

• 么 (má) · 3 strokes

  Variant form of 幺, which is a pictograph of a twisted thread.