燎
liáoliǎo

to burn

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

Components

火
火 Meaning component
huǒ fire
尞
尞 SoundMeaning component
liào, liáo burnt offering

尞 also serves as a meaning component.

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangrew
rewʔ
rews
Unicodeliɛ̀u
liɛ̌u

說文解字

《說文》：“燎，放火也。从火，尞聲。”

Sources

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