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料
liào
1. material
2. stuff
3. grain
4. feed
5. to expect
6. to anticipate
7. to guess
Very Common • Top 1% ✏️ 10 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

料
liào
ingredients, materials; to conjecture, to guess
HSK 3 10 丶

Compound Words (20)

笑料
xiàoliào
source of laughter
调料
tiáoliào
condiment
HSK 6
猛料
měngliào
hot news item
磨料
móliào
abrasive material
语料
yǔliào
corpus
熟料
shúliào
worked material
爆料
bàoliào
to expose (in the media)
物料
wùliào
material
材料
cáiliào
material
HSK 4
用料
yòngliào
ingredients
肥料
féiliào
fertilizer
装料
zhuāngliào
to load
油料
yóuliào
oilseed
照料
zhàoliào
to tend
佐料
zuǒliào
condiments
料想
liàoxiǎng
to expect
作料
zuóliao
condiments
料理
liàolǐ
to arrange
料酒
liàojiǔ
cooking wine
料头
liàotóu
remainder of cloth

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
3
Character Frequency Rank
556
Word Frequency Rank
954 of 84,292

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