liào

surname

The wind  blowing over a vast, empty plain 广

Components
广 meaning component

广  Meaning component

yǎnguǎng

  

roof

翏 meaning component

  Meaning component

liù

  

to sweep away, to remove

Evolution

廖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
廖 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
廖 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
廖 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
廖 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

liào

surname; name of an ancient state

 

Liào

surname Liao

Most common words with 廖
Freq.
Word
Meaning

surname Liao

廖沫沙

Liao Mosha (1907-1990), journalist and communist propagandist, severely criticized and imprisoned for 10 years during the Cultural Revolution

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2890th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+5ED6

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“廖,人姓。从广,未詳。當是省廫字尔。”


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