liào
surname
The wind 翏 blowing over a vast, empty plain 广
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 廖
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
surname Liao | ||
Liao Mosha (1907-1990), journalist and communist propagandist, severely criticized and imprisoned for 10 years during the Cultural Revolution |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2890th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+5ED6 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》:“廖,人姓。从广,未詳。當是省廫字尔。” |
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