Chinese Character Wiki
料

liào

ingredients

Depicts a ladle (斗) full of rice (米).

Components
米 iconic component

米  Iconic component

mǐ

  

rice

斗 iconic component

斗  Iconic component

dǒu, dòu

  

ladle

Evolution

料 Bronze script Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)

Bronze script

Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
料 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
料 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
料 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
料 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

料  

liào

consider, conjecture; materials, ingredients; material; stuff; grain; feed; to expect; to anticipate; to guess

Most common words with 料
Freq.
Word
Meaning

资料

material

材料

material

料

stuff

饮料

drink

塑料

plastics

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]ˤew-s

lewH

liào

measure (v.)


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 58.5135% of movies

714th most common character in movies

557th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+6599

Shuowen

“料，量也。从斗，米在其中。”


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