燎 — Chinese character
燎
liáo
to burn, to light; street lamp; signal fire
- Pinyin
- liáo
- Radical
- 86 ⽕ (Fire)
- Strokes
- 16
- Components
- 火 尞
- Formation
- pictophonetic — fire; meaning component 火; sound component 尞
- Japanese
- 燎 as a kanji
Common words with 燎
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 燎原 | liáo yuán | to start a prairie fire |
| 心急火燎 | xīn jí huǒ liǎo | see 心急如焚 (xīn jí rú fén) |
| 火烧火燎 (火燒火燎) | huǒ shāo huǒ liǎo | restless with anxiety; to feel unbearably painful or hot |
| 烟熏火燎 (煙燻火燎) | yān xūn huǒ liǎo | smoke and baking fire (idiom); surrounded by flames and smoke |
| 火燎 | huǒ liáo | to singe; to scorch |
| 燎泡 | liáo pào | blister (caused by burns) |
English words written with 燎
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.