了

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Hanzi 5.3 Particle 5.4 Verb 6 Middle Chinese 6.1 Han character 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

Stroke order

[edit] Han character

了 (radical 6 亅+1, 2 strokes, cangjie input 弓弓 (NN), four-corner 1720₇)

1. to finish
2. particle of completed action

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 85, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 226
• Dae Jaweon: page 173, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 48, character 6
• Unihan data for U+4E86

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

了 (jyutping liu5, Yale liu5)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

了 (common kanji)

1. finish, complete

[edit] Readings

• On: りょう (ryō)
• Kun: おわる (owaru), ついに (tsuini)

[edit] Compounds

• 了解
• 了承

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

了 (hangeul 료>요, revised ryo>yo, McCune-Reischauer ryo>yo)

• • Yale: lyo>yo

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Hanzi

了 (pinyin le (le5), liǎo (liao3), Wade-Giles le⁵, liao³)

[edit] Particle

了 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin le)

1. Used to indicate past tense.

[edit] Verb

了 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin liǎo)

1. To finish

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[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

了 (*leǔ)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

了 (liễu)