料

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料 U+6599, 料
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6599
← 斘
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 斚 →
料 U+F9BE, 料
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9BE
← 尿
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 樂 →

Translingual

Stroke order
10 strokes

Han character

料 (Kangxi radical 68, 斗+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 火木卜十 (FDYJ), four-corner 94900, composition ⿰米斗)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 478, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13501
  • Dae Jaweon: page 836, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2253, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6599

Chinese

trad. 料
simp. # 料

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 料
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (料) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
料 *reːw, *reːws
炓 *reːws

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 米 (“rice”) + 斗 (“dipper”) – to measure; to gauge.

Pronunciation 1

Note:
  • lâiu - vernacular (noun);
    • liêu - literary (verb:
    • “to measure; to consider; to estimate”);
    • lièu - obsolete literary (verb:
    • “to oversee; to manage”), now merged into liêu.
Note:
  • liao7 - Shantou;
  • liou7 - Chaozhou.
Rime
Character 料
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 蕭 (93)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 力弔切
Baxter lewH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/leuH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/leuH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/leuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/lɛwH/
Li
Rong 		/leuH/
Wang
Li 		/lieuH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/lieuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		liào
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		liu6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 料
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		liào
Middle
Chinese 		‹ lewH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁew-s/
English measure (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 料
Reading # 2/2
No. 8069
Phonetic
component 		料
Rime
group 		宵
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		𩕐
Old
Chinese 		/*reːws/

Definitions

料

  1. to anticipate; to predict; to foresee; to expect
  2. to oversee; to manage; to deal with
  3. material; matter; substance
  4. ingredient; constituent; component
  5. material (person or thing suited for a certain purpose); makings
    他不是當兵的料。 [MSC, trad.]
    他不是当兵的料。 [MSC, simp.]
    Tā bùshì dāngbīng de liào.
    He is not born to be a soldier.
  6. (Cantonese) information
Synonyms
  • (material; makings): 料子 (liàozi)

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 料
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 蕭 (93)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 落蕭切
Baxter lew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/leu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/leu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/leu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/lɛw/
Li
Rong 		/leu/
Wang
Li 		/lieu/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/lieu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		liáo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		liu4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 料
Reading # 1/2
No. 8068
Phonetic
component 		料
Rime
group 		宵
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		聊
Old
Chinese 		/*reːw/

Definitions

料

  1. Alternative form of 撩 (“to tease; to provoke”)

Pronunciation 3

Definitions

料

  1. (Hakka) Alternative form of 嫽

Japanese

Kanji

料

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. fee
  2. materials

Readings

Compounds


Kanji in this term
料
りょう
Grade: 4
on'yomi

Suffix

料(りょう) • (-ryō) 

  1. fee, cost
  2. material of something

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 料 (MC lew|lewH).

Historical readings

Recorded as Middle Korean 뇨 (nyo) (Yale: nyo) in Sinjeung Yuhap (新增類合 / 신증유합), 1576.

From Middle Chinese 料 (MC lew)

From Middle Chinese 料 (MC lewH)

Pronunciation

  • (initial position)
    • (material; to predict; etc.):
    • (fee; price; etc.):
      • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key):
      • Phonetic hangul:
        • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
  • (non-initial position)

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

料 (eumhun 헤아릴 료 (hearil ryo), word-initial (South Korea) 헤아릴 요 (hearil yo))

  1. hanja form? of 료/요 (“fee; price; cost; count”)
  2. hanja form? of 료/요 (“material; ingredient”)
  3. hanja form? of 료/요 (“to predict; to anticipate”)

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

料: Hán Nôm readings: liệu, liều, xệu, lẽo, liêu

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