liáo
companion
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 尞 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 僚
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
bureaucrat | ||
bureaucracy | ||
colleague | ||
aids and advisors of top officials | ||
bureaucrat |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]ˤew | lew | liáo | office or position |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.2997% of movies
2677th most common character in movies
2234th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+50DA |
Shuowen | “僚，好皃。从人，尞聲。” |
Sources
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