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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)

不料
bùliào
unexpectedly
HSK 6
主料
zhǔliào
main ingredients (in a cooking recipe)
佐料
zuǒliào
condiments
作料
zuóliao
condiments
备料
bèiliào
to get the materials ready
加料
jiāliào
to feed in
原料
yuánliào
raw material
HSK 5
史料
shǐliào
historical material or data
坯料
pīliào
semifinished materials
塑料
sùliào
plastics
涂料
túliào
paint
填料
tiánliào
packing material
垫料
diànliào
packing material
大料
dàliào
Chinese anise
孰料
shúliào
who would have thought?
布料
bùliào
cloth
废料
fèiliào
waste products
意料
yìliào
to anticipate
HSK 6
所料
suǒliào
expectation
据料
jùliào
according to forecasts

Metadata

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

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