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僚

僚

僚 U+50DA, 僚
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50DA
← 僙
[U+50D9] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 僛 →
[U+50DB]

Translingual

Han character

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

  1. companion, colleague
  2. officials
  3. bureaucracy
  4. a pretty face

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 僚

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 僚
Oracle bone script

j18875
Small seal script

s05694
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 (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (尞) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
簝 *reːw, *reːw
潦 *reːwʔ, *reːws
獠 *reːwʔ, *ʔr'eːwʔ, *reːw
轑 *reːwʔ
橑 *reːwʔ, *reːw
燎 *rew, *rewʔ, *rews
繚 *rewʔ, *reːw, *reːwʔ
璙 *rewʔ, *reːw, *reːws
憭 *rewʔ, *reːw, *reːwʔ
爒 *rewʔ, *reːwʔ
僚 *rewʔ, *reːw
嫽 *rewʔ, *reːw, *reːws
療 *rews
膫 *rews, *reːw
鷯 *rews, *reːw
遼 *reːw
撩 *reːw, *reːwʔ
嘹 *reːw, *reːw, *reːws
寮 *reːw
飉 *reːw
竂 *reːw
鐐 *reːw, *reːws
蟟 *reːw
瞭 *reːw, *reːwʔ
嶚 *reːw
镽 *reːwʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *rewʔ, *reːw) : semantic 人 ‎(“person”) + phonetic 尞.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 僚 僚
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 來 (37) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 蕭 (93) 宵 (91)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) IV III
Fanqie 落蕭切 力小切
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
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 僚
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 liáo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ lew ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[r]ˤew/
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. *[t] 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 僚 僚
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 8084 8095
Phonetic
component		 尞 尞
Rime
group		 宵 宵
Rime
subdivision		 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 繚 聊
Old
Chinese		 /*rewʔ/ /*reːw/

Definitions

僚

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Japanese

Kanji

僚

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. colleague
  2. official
  3. companion

Readings

Korean

Hanja

僚 • ‎(ryo) (hangeul 료, revised ryo, McCune-Reischauer ryo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

僚 (liêu)

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