蓼 · liǎo
smartweed, polygonum
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
smartweed, polygonum
- Mandarin
- liǎo
- Cantonese
- liu5
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 蓼 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
リク リョウ ロウ リュウ ロク ル たでKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 료
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
- 요
- KS X 1001 (0)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+84FC
- Radical
- 艸 · 140
- Strokes
- 14 · Unihan
- Residual
- 11
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
14 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 蓼
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- lewX · 盧鳥 反切 · #1667
- Middle Chinese
- ljuwk · 力竹 反切 · #3201
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 10999 · lewX = 效開四上蕭來 · ljuwk = 通開三入東來
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- liǎo
- kCantonese
- liu5
- kDefinition
- smartweed, polygonum
- kTotalStrokes
- 14
- kRSUnicode
- 140.11
- kTGH
- 2013:5659
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- liǎo,lù,lǎo,liǔ 53286.080
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- liǎo 0711.110 · lù 0739.050
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- liǎo 223.040
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- liǎo粵liu5 lù粵luk6
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 盧鳥 力竹
- Kangxi positions
- 1053.020
- Guangyun positions
- 295.53 454.20
- GSR references
- 1069p
- Cangjie
- TSMH
- Four-corner
- 4420.2