liáo, liǎo
to burn
Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 尞 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 燎
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to start a prairie fire | ||
to burn | ||
to burn with anxiety | ||
smoke and baking fire (idiom); surrounded by flames and smoke | ||
restless with anxiety |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4041st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+71CE |
Shuowen | “燎,放火也。从火,尞聲。” |
Sources
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