liáo

few

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
宀 meaning component

  Meaning component

mián

  

roof

翏 sound component

  Sound component

liù

  

to sweep away, to remove

Definitions

 

liáo

few, scarce; empty, deserted; empty; lonesome; very few

Most common words with 寥
Freq.
Word
Meaning

寥寥

very few

寥寥无几

not many at all

寂寥

lonely

empty

寥落

sparse

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3116th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+5BE5


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