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繚

liáo

wind round

Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 尞 represents the sound.

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

糹 is a component form of 糸.

尞 sound component

尞  Sound component

liào

  

burnt offering

Evolution

繚 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
繚 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
繚 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
繚 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

缭 (繚) 

liáo

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

Most common words with 繚
Freq.
Word
Meaning

眼花缭乱

to be dazzled

缭绕

to curl up

缭

to wind round

缭乱

dazzled

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3637th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

缭

Unicode

U+7E5A

Shuowen

“繚，纏也。从糸，尞聲。”


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