廖
Liào

surname

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ARPHIC

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Components

广
广 Meaning component
翏
翏 Sound component

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangrɯːw
rɯːws
rɯws

說文解字

《說文新附》：“廖，人姓。从广，未詳。當是省廫字尔。”

Sources

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