撩 · liāo
lift up, raise; leave, depart
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
lift up, raise; leave, depart
- Mandarin
- liāo
- Cantonese
- liu4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 撩 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
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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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 1002 (1) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+64A9
- Radical
- 手 · 64
- Strokes
- 15 · Unihan
- Residual
- 12
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
15 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 撩
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
- lew · 落蕭 反切 · #653
- Middle Chinese
- lewX · 盧鳥 反切 · #1667
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 5241 · lew = 效開四平蕭來 · lewX = 效開四上蕭來
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
- liāo
- kCantonese
- liu4
- kDefinition
- lift up, raise; leave, depart
- kTotalStrokes
- 15
- kRSUnicode
- 64.12
- kTGH
- 2013:3193
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- liáo,liǎo,lào,liāo,liào 31955.020
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- liāo 0710.070 · liáo 0710.130 · liào 0712.051
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- liāo 222.040 · liáo 222.120
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- liāo(15)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- liāo粵liu1 liáo粵liu4
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 落蕭 盧鳥
- Kangxi positions
- 0456.070
- Guangyun positions
- 145.40 296.10
- Cangjie
- QKCF
- Four-corner
- 5409.6