liáo
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to burn brushwood as a sacrifice; the old form of 燎 (to burn)

Examples

Shānshàng rán qǐ le liáoyuán dàhuǒ.
A wildfire is burning on the mountain.

Tips

history
is the old form behind (to set ablaze) and is not used on its own today. It is a productive phonetic root, giving the sound in (to burn), (colleague), (hut / dormitory), (to tease), and (to treat / cure).

Components

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liáo
to burn brushwood in sacrifice
Treated as one unit. It historically stacked a 'fire' element under crossed kindling and sparks to show a ritual bonfire; the modern shape fused so the parts no longer separate cleanly in .

Filed under radical (xiǎo) by convention. is not a separate component in , so no strokes are highlighted.

Stroke Order

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