liáo
merely; just; a little; slightly; chat; rely on
Practice writing with stroke order guidance, audio pronunciation, and interactive exercises in our mobile app.
Step-by-step stroke order animations
Native speaker audio pronunciation
Interactive writing recognition
我们来聊聊天吧。
Wǒmen lái liáo liáo tiān ba.
Let's have a chat.
我不想和你聊天。
Wǒ bù xiǎng hé nǐ liáo tiān.
I don't want to talk to you.
我们在网上聊天。
Wǒmen zài wǎng shàng liáo tiān.
We are chatting online.
谈 (tán)
talk
说 (shuō)
say
忙 (máng)
busy
认真 (rèn zhēn)
serious
The Chinese character 聊 (liáo) is composed of two parts: the radical 言 (yán), which means "speech" or "language", and the phonetic component 喬 (qiáo), which is a simplified form of the character 橋 (qiáo), meaning "bridge". The original meaning of 聊 was "to chat" or "to talk", which is related to the idea of building a bridge between two people through conversation. Over time, the meaning of 聊 expanded to include other related concepts such as "to comfort", "to amuse", and "to be interested in". In modern Chinese, 聊 is commonly used in the phrase 聊天 (liáotiān), which means "to chat" or "to have a conversation".
