寥 liáo
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liáo
adjective
scarce; very few
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '寥'; Unihan '寥') -
liáo
adjective
empty; deserted
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '寥'; Unihan '寥')
Contained in
- 寥寥可数(寥寥可數) just a very few; tiny number; just a handful; not many at all; You count them on your fingers.
- 寥若晨星 rare as morning stars; few and far between; sparse
- 寂寥 remote and desolate ; tranquil
- 寥寂 tranquil ; lonely
- 寥寥 very few
- 寥落 sparse; few and far between
- 寥寥无几(寥寥無幾) just a very few; tiny number; not many at all; You count them on your fingers.
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷十六 Scroll 16 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 8
- 卷十一 Scroll 11 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 7
- 卷三十一 Scroll 31 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 5
- 卷十 Scroll 10 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 4
- 卷五十一 Scroll 51 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 4
- 卷三十三 Scroll 33 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
- 卷七 Scroll 7 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
- 卷六十上 馬融列傳 Volume 60a: Biography of Ma Rong Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 3
- 卷二十六 Scroll 26 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
- 卷十九 Scroll 19 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
Collocations
- 寥廓 (寥廓) 寥廓而獨寐 — New Discussions 新語, 卷上 道基第一 術事第二 輔政第三 無為第四 辨惑第五 慎微第六 Scroll 1 — count: 68
- 泬寥 (泬寥) 起泬寥於遠天 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷36 李順 Volume 36: Li Shun — count: 8
- 寥亮 (寥亮) 發聲寥亮 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷四十九 列傳第十九 阮籍 嵇康 向秀 劉伶 謝鯤 胡毋輔之 畢卓 王尼 羊曼 光逸 Volume 49 Biographies 19: Ruan Ji; Ji Kang; Xiang Xiu; Liu Ling; Xie Kun; Huwu Fuzhi; Bi Zhuo; Wang Ni; Yang Man; Guang Yi — count: 5
- 寥子 (寥子) 而防及寥子遵皆坐徙封丹陽 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷二十四 馬援列傳 Volume 24: Biography of Ma Yuan — count: 4
- 寥豁 (寥豁) 寥豁鬱泱 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷六十上 馬融列傳 Volume 60a: Biography of Ma Rong — count: 4
- 参寥 (參寥) 賈參寥 — New Book of Tang 新唐書, 卷五十九 志第四十九 藝文三 Volume 59 Treatises 55: The Arts 3 — count: 4
- 上寥 (上寥) 上寥廓而無天 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《司馬相如列傳》 Biography of Sima Xiangru — count: 3
- 寥天 (寥天) 乃入於寥天一 — Zhuangzi 莊子, 《大宗師》 The Great and Most Honoured Master — count: 2
- 窐寥 (窐寥) 窐寥窈冥 — Wenxuan 文選, 卷十九 Scroll 19 — count: 2
- 寥窲 (寥窲) 霐寥窲以崢嶸 — Wenxuan 文選, 卷十一 Scroll 11 — count: 2