| Word form | yō |
| Original script | 様、よう |
| LWT meaning(s) | |
| Word meaning | a grammatical morpheme attached to a predicative verb/adjective form |
| Comments on word | Due to conventions in Modern Japanese for grammaticalised words, usually written in hiragana. |
| Analyzability | unanalyzable |
| Age | Late Old Japanese [21] (794–1185) |
| Lexical stratum | kango |
| Year | 970 |
| Comparison with Mandarin | grammaticalisation (Japanese) |
| Register | General |
| Numeric frequency | 3357 |