僚
liáo HSK7

companion

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 尞 represents the sound.

Components

亻
亻 Meaning component
rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

尞
尞 Sound component
liào, liáo burnt offering

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Wu) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartlew[r]ˤewoffice or position
Zhengzhangrewʔ
reːw

說文解字

好皃。从人尞聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)