僚 — colleague, official, companion

りょう僚 colleague

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 14 strokes

U+50DA Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #709 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1842 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

colleague
official
companion

word

りょう ryou On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

官(かん) 僚(りょう) kanryou bureaucrat 同(どう) 僚(りょう) douryou colleague 閣(かく) 僚(りょう) kakuryou cabinet minister

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

亻 person (left form)

尞 bonfire

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

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