jump, dance, leap, skip
踊 centers on lively, rhythmic movement: jumping, dancing, leaping, or skipping. All the given meanings share the idea of energetic, upward motion.
踊 combines 足 (foot) with 甬, which likely contributes the sound and suggests a rising or springing motion. The character expresses leaping or dancing with the feet.
The left side 足 means foot. The right side 甬 looks like a figure springing up. Picture feet bouncing off the ground in a dance or jump.
For ヨウ, imagine a dancer leaping and shouting 'Yo!' with each jump: Yo! -> ヨウ, and the feet keep dancing.
to dance (orig. a hopping dance)
dance
dancing; dance
Bon Festival dance; Lantern Festival dance
dancer (usu. female)
place for dancing; dance floor
dance troupe
conference with much socializing but little real progress; the congress dances (but doesn't progress)
Buddhist incantation using chanting, drumbeating, and dancing
"dancing" with hands and arms from a seated position; dancing empty-handed
traditional Japanese dance
traditional Japanese dance
kabuki dance
early kabuki dance
folk dance; ethnic dance
folk dance
contemporary dance; modern dance
refined version of ta-asobi dance performed in Tōhoku about half way through the first lunar month
Bon Festival dance song
we have piped unto you and ye have not danced; people ignoring one's invitation or effort to do something together