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See also: 𠆨
U+50DA, 僚
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50DA

CJK Unified Ideographs
U+F9BB, 僚
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9BB

CJK Compatibility Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 9, +12, 14 strokes, cangjie input 人大金火 (OKCF), four-corner 24296, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 116, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1100
  • Dae Jaweon: page 248, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 218, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+50DA

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *rewʔ, *reːw) : semantic (person) + phonetic ().

Pronunciation 1

simp. and trad.
2nd round simp. 𠆨
alternative forms


Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (37) (37)
Final () (93) (91)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () IV III
Fanqie
Baxter lew ljewX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/leu/ /liᴇuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/leu/ /liɛuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/leu/ /ljæuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lɛw/ /liawX/
Li
Rong
/leu/ /liɛuX/
Wang
Li
/lieu/ /lĭɛuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/lieu/ /li̯ɛuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
liáo liǎo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
liu4 liu5
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
liáo
Middle
Chinese
‹ lew ›
Old
Chinese
/*ˁew/
English office or position

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 8084 8095
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*rewʔ/ /*reːw/

Definitions

  1. official; bureaucrat
      ―  guānliáo  ―  bureaucrat
  2. colleague; associate; companion
      ―  tóngliáo  ―  colleague; coworker
  3. a surname

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

simp. and trad.

Definitions

  1. good; beautiful

Pronunciation 3

simp. and trad.

Definitions

Wikipedia has articles on:
  1. (historical) Alternative form of (lǎo, an ancient tribe in southwestern China)

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. colleague
  2. official
  3. companion

Readings

Affix

(りょう) (ryō

  1. colleague

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese (MC lew|ljewX). Recorded as Middle Korean (lyo) (Yale: lyo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 동료 (dongnyo ryo), word-initial (South Korea) 동료 (dongnyo yo))

  1. hanja form? of / (colleague)

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

: Hán Nôm readings: liêu

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