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寮

Mandarin · pinyin liáo#

hut
shack
small window
variant of 僚 liáo

Mandarin · pinyin Liáo#

Laos

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寮: liáo · shanty, hut, shack

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liu4

Cantonese word readings for 寮. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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(literary or dialectal) small house; shack; hut
(Shehua) house (building for living)
(Shehua) home
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) small window
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) original form of 僚 (liáo, “government officials”)
a surname
(chiefly Taiwan, Singapore) short for 寮國 (“Laos”)

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