料 — Chinese character
料
liào
ingredients, materials; to conjecture, to guess
- Pinyin
- liào
- Radical
- 68 ⽃ (Dipper)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 米 斗
- Formation
- ideographic — A hand measuring 斗 a cup of rice 米
- Japanese
- 料 as a kanji
Common words with 料
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 资料 (資料) | zī liào | material; resources |
| 材料 | cái liào | (raw) material; data |
| 原料 | yuán liào | raw material |
| 燃料 | rán liào | fuel |
| 饮料 (飲料) | yǐn liào | drink; beverage |
| 料理 | liào lǐ | to arrange; to handle |
| 塑料 | sù liào | plastic; plastics (general term for synthetic polymer materials) |
| 史料 | shǐ liào | historical material or data |
| 饲料 (飼料) | sì liào | feed; fodder |
| 预料 (預料) | yù liào | to forecast; to anticipate |
| 肥料 | féi liào | fertilizer |
| 原材料 | yuán cái liào | raw and semifinished materials |
English words written with 料
料 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Art of War 3 · Zhuangzi 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.