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僚

liáo
noun #38,515

Meanings

  1. 1 official; bureaucrat
  2. 2 colleague; fellow official

Examples

他最看不起官僚作风。
Tā zuì kànbùqǐ guānliáo zuòfēng.
He despises bureaucratic airs the most.
他和同僚相处得很好。
Tā hé tóngliáo xiāngchǔ de hěn hǎo.
He gets along well with his colleagues.

Tips

usage
Two related senses. 官僚 means bureaucrat or bureaucracy, often with a critical edge. 同僚 means a colleague, originally a fellow official. In aviation 僚机 is a wingman aircraft.

Components

radical
亻 rén
person (radical form)
Left person radical, the side-form of 人. It marks 僚 as a word about people, here officials and colleagues. Same person family as 们 and 侨.
phonetic
尞 liáo
(phonetic element)
Right element supplies the sound — liáo with no tone shift. It contributes no meaning here; the same phonetic appears in 寮 and 燎.

Stroke Order

僚 liáo