尞
liàoliáo

burnt offering

Original form of 燎 (burn; set on fire). Depicts burning wood (木) with several dots around it, representing flame. The 日 (sun) and 火 (fire) components were added later.

Components

木
木 Iconic component
mù tree
◎
◎ Iconic component
characterless component

Depicts sparks of flame.

日
日 Meaning component
rì sun
火
火 Meaning component
huǒ fire
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 火 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (2 of 18 verified)

僚撩缭潦燎瞭镣寮獠嘹鹩膫繚鐐鷯蟟療遼

Meaning (1 of 2 verified)

燎獠

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartljewH[r][a]w-s burnt offering

說文解字

《說文》：“尞，柴祭天也。从火，从眘。眘，古文慎字，祭天所以慎也。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)