liáo
distant
Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 尞 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 遼
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
vast | ||
Liao or Khitan dynasty (907-1125) | ||
Liaoning province in northeast China, short name 遼|辽[Liáo], capital Shenyang 瀋陽|沈阳[Shěnyáng] | ||
Liaoning province in northeast China, short name 遼|辽[Liáo], capital Shenyang 瀋陽|沈阳[Shěnyáng] | ||
east of Liao river 遼河|辽河 |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2086th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+907C |
Shuowen | “遼,遠也。从辵,尞聲。” |
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