Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

僚: colleague, official

Also: companion

JLPT N114 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

亻 carries the meaning · 尞 gives the sound

14 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

リョウryou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 閣僚かくりょうcabinet ministers
  • 官僚かんりょうbureaucrat; government official; bureaucracy
  • 同僚どうりょうcoworker; co-worker; colleague
  • 幕僚ばくりょうstaff; staff officer
  • 僚友りょうゆうcolleague; workmate; comrade
  • 僚船りょうせんconsort ship

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Memory story · made up to help you remember

“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
More in the 亻 person story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
亻

Also built on person (亻)

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尞

Also built on 尞

僚 takes the 尞 family's reading, リョウ (ryou).

Also read リョウ

29 kanji share this on'yomiAll 29

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
僚 colleague · 亻
vs寮 dormitory · 宀
僚 has 亻 where 寮 has 宀.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · liáo

Same form: 僚 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
僚 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
僚 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin liáo most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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