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僚

liáo
noun #38,515

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 5
他和同僚相处得很好。
Tā hé tóngliáo xiāngchǔ de hěn hǎo.
He gets along well with his colleagues.
HSK 7-9
他最看不起官僚作风。
Tā zuì kànbuqǐ guānliáo zuòfēng.
He despises bureaucratic airs the most.

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