liáoLiáo

the fat covering the intestines

Components

Meaning component
ròu meat, flesh

flesh

Sound component
liào, liáo burnt offering

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangrews
reːw

說文解字

牛腸脂也。从肉尞聲。《詩》曰:“取其血膫。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica