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Translingual

Etymology: From rice and phonetic (also a dipper) . Meaning ingredients, as in food.

Stroke order

Han character

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

  1. consider, conjecture
  2. materials, ingredients

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*reːw, *reːws
*reːws

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (37) (37)
Final () (93) (93)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () IV IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/leu/ /leuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/leu/ /leuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/leu/ /leuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lɛw/ /lɛwH/
Li
Rong
/leu/ /leuH/
Wang
Li
/lieu/ /lieuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/lieu/ /lieuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
liáo liào
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
liào
Middle
Chinese
‹ lewH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[r]ˤew-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. *[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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 8068 8069
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
𩕐
Old
Chinese
/*reːw/ /*reːws/

Definitions

  1. to anticipate, to predict, to foresee, to expect
  2. material
  3. ingredient
  4. that is capable of doing something
    不是當兵 / 不是当兵   Tā bùshì dāngbīng de liào.   He is not capable of being a soldier. - Please check this translation.

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. fee
  2. materials

Readings

Compounds

  • みかじめ (りょう) (mikajimeryō)
  • 挨拶料 (あいさつりょう) (aisatsuryō)
  • 立退料 (たちのきりょう) (tachinokiryō)
  • 料額印面 (りょうがくいんめん) (ryōgakuinmen)
Kanji in this term
りょう
Grade: 4
on'yomi

Suffix

(hiragana りょう, romaji -ryō)

  1. fee, cost
  2. material of something

Korean

Hanja

(ryo>yo) (hangeul >, revised ryo>yo, McCune-Reischauer ryo>yo, Yale lyo>yo)

  1. count
  2. fee, price
  3. material

Compounds


Vietnamese

Han character

(liệu, liều, xệu, lẽo, liêu)

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