liáo
to chat
Phonosemantic compound. 耳 represents the meaning and 卯 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]ˤiw | lew | liáo | rely on |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 48.4062% of movies
803rd most common character in movies
1932nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+804A |
Shuowen | “聊,耳鳴也。从耳,卯聲。” |
Sources
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