尞

liáo
verb

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 7-9
Shānshàng rán qǐ le liáoyuán dàhuǒ.
A wildfire is burning on the mountain.

Tips

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

Components

ideograph
尞 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 尞.

Filed under radical 小 (xiǎo, #42) by convention. 小 is not a separate component in 尞, so no strokes are highlighted.

Stroke Order

尞 liáo