僚

僚 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+12, 14 strokes, cangjie input 人大金火 (OKCF), four-corner 2429₆, composition ⿰亻尞)

• 𡒭

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 116, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1100
• Dae Jaweon: page 248, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 218, character 3
• Unihan data for U+50DA

• Unihan data for U+F9BB

Historical forms of the character 僚
Oracle bone script   j18875 Small seal script   s05694
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *rewʔ, *reːw) : semantic 人 (“person”) + phonetic 尞 ().

僚

1. official; bureaucrat

   官僚  ―  guānliáo  ―  bureaucrat

2. colleague; associate; companion

   同僚  ―  tóngliáo  ―  colleague; coworker

3. a surname

僚

1. ^† good; beautiful

   • 月出皎兮、佼人僚兮。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Yuè chū jiǎo xī, jiǎorén liǎo xī. [Pinyin]

     The moon comes forth in her brightness;
     How lovely is that beautiful lady!

僚

 

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 僚人 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• Rau peoples (English)

1. (historical) Alternative form of 䝤 (lǎo, “an ancient tribe in southwestern China”)

• “僚”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jōyō kanji)

1. colleague
2. official
3. companion

• Go-on: りょう (ryō, Jōyō)^{←れう (reu, historical)}
• Kan-on: りょう (ryō, Jōyō)^{←れう (reu, historical)}
• Kun: とも (tomo, 僚)、つかさ (tsukasa, 僚)

僚(りょう) • (ryō) 

1. colleague

From Middle Chinese 僚 (MC lew|ljewX). Recorded as Middle Korean 료 (lyo) (Yale: lyo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

 

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

僚

Wikisource

僚 (eumhun 동료 료 (dongnyo ryo), word-initial (South Korea) 동료 요 (dongnyo yo))

1. hanja form^? of 료/요 (“colleague”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

僚: Hán Nôm readings: liêu

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