liáo

distant

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

Components
辶 meaning component

  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

is a component form of .

了 sound component

  Sound component

leliǎoliào

  

finish

Evolution

辽 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
辽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
辽 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
辽 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
辽 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

liáo

distant, far

() 

Liáo

short name for Liaoning 遼寧|辽宁[Liáo​níng] province; Liao or Khitan dynasty (907-1125)

Most common words with 辽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

辽阔

vast

Liao or Khitan dynasty (907-1125)

辽宁

Liaoning province in northeast China, short name 遼|辽[Liáo], capital Shenyang 瀋陽|沈阳[Shěn​yáng]

辽宁省

Liaoning province in northeast China, short name 遼|辽[Liáo], capital Shenyang 瀋陽|沈阳[Shěn​yáng]

辽东

east of Liao river 遼河|辽河

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2086th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Traditional

Unicode

U+8FBD


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