漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
遼: distant
JLPT N115 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met
- 尞(form)
- ⻌road(meaning)
⻌ carries the meaning · 尞 is drawn in
15 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
リョウryou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 遼りょうLiao (Manchurian dynasty; 916-1125 CE)
- 遼遠りょうえんremote; far off
- 遼寧省りょうねいしょうLiaoning Province (China)
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“This swooping radical is the winding road you walk upon! It curves under the rest of the kanji like a path being carved through a landscape.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
尞
Also built on 尞
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side遼 distant · ⻌
vs僚 colleague · 亻In ChineseSimplified 辽 · traditional, as in Japanese · liáo
Japan keeps the traditional form 遼; mainland China simplifies it to 辽.
- Simplified
- 辽 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 遼 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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