寥
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empty; lonesome; very few
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 宀 +11
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 寥
- Common rank
- #3,601
- Unicode
- U+5BE5
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Formation & memory
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How 寥 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
宀 meaning “roof” + 翏 sound ()
Components 宀 翏
How to remember it
deserted · Heisig RSH #2708
house + kiddie cocktail
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 寥
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 寥若晨星 | rare as morning stars (idiom); few and far between; sparse | |
| 寥寥可数 | (idiom) very few | |
| 寥落 | sparse; few and far between | |
| 寥寥无几 | (idiom) very few | |
| 寂寥 | (literary) quiet and desolate; lonely; vast and empty | |
| 寥廓 | (literary) vast; boundless | |
| 寥寥 | very few |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 翏 — compare how they read.