遼

See also 辽

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 辵 (“walk”) + phonetic 尞

Han character

遼 (radical 162 辵+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜大金火 (YKCF), four-corner 3430₉)

1. distant, far

References

• KangXi: page 1265, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39137
• Dae Jaweon: page 1763, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3881, character 5
• Unihan data for U+907C

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Cantonese

Hanzi

遼 (simplified 辽, Yale liu4)

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Japanese

Kanji

遼

Readings

• On: りょう (ryō)
• Kun: はるか (haruka)

Proper noun

遼 (hiragana りょう, romaji Ryō)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

遼 (hangeul 료>요, revised ryo>yo, McCune-Reischauer ryo>yo, Yale lyo>yo)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

遼 (simplified 辽, pinyin liáo (liao2), qú (qu2), Wade-Giles liao², ch'ü²)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

遼 (*leu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

遼 (liêu)