liáo

wind round

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
纟 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silk

is a component form of .

尞 sound component

  Sound component

liào

  

burnt offering

Evolution

缭 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
缭 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
缭 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
缭 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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liáo

wind round, rap around, bind; to wind round; to sew with slanting stitches

Most common words with 缭
Freq.
Word
Meaning

眼花缭乱

to be dazzled

缭绕

to curl up

to wind round

缭乱

dazzled

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3637th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Traditional

Unicode

U+7F2D


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