Liao

A romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of 遼／辽 (Liáo)

Liao

1. A river of Manchuria (northeastern China)
   • 1934, T. O'Conroy, The Menace of Japan‎, London: Hurst & Blackett, OCLC 959340784, page 159:

     The centre of Chinese influence in Manchuria was mainly Liaotung peninsula and along the Liao River valley.

   • 1939, Matheson, Walker, “The U. S. Joins in the Battle of the Concessions”, in North American Review‎, volume 248, number 1, ISSN 0029-2397, JSTOR 25115131, OCLC 717655862, pages 50-51:

     Naturally the Japanese destroyed or captured the greater part of the obsolete Chinese Navy, drove the Chinese armies out of Korea, occupied Southern Manchuria as far west as the Liao River, and invaded Shantung.

   • 2015, McLynn, Frank, “The Invasion of the Jin Empire”, in Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World‎, Vintage Books, published 2016, →ISBN, OCLC 1039616538, page 206:

     After proceeding south-east to Yung-Ping (on the Bohai Sea), he then struck north-east to the Liao River, following Jebe’s route a year earlier, and penetrated deep into Manchuria, following, first, the north-easterly course of the Sunggari (Songhua) River, the largest tributary of the mighty Amur.

   • 2021 November 10, Dunham, Will, “Japanese-Korean-Turkish language group traced to farmers in ancient China”, in Rosalba O'Brien, editor, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 10 November 2021, China:

     This language family's beginnings were traced to Neolithic millet farmers in the Liao River valley, an area encompassing parts of the Chinese provinces of Liaoning and Jilin and the region of Inner Mongolia. […]
     The origins of modern Chinese languages arose independently, though in a similar fashion with millet also involved. While the progenitors of the Transeurasian languages grew broomcorn millet in the Liao River valley, the originators of the Sino-Tibetan language family farmed foxtail millet at roughly the same time in China's Yellow River region, paving the way for a separate language dispersal, Robbeets said.

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2. One of various medieval dynasties of Khitan rulers in Chinese history originally from its watershed
3. (uncommon) Liaoning, a Chinese province surrounding and named for the Liao watershed

• Khitan Empire, Khitan Dynasty, Northern Liao, Western Liao, Kara-Khitan Khanate (dynasties)

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Liao River”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, OCLC 802473294, page 1049, column 1
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Liao”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1729, column 1

Borrowed from Mandarin 廖 (Liào).

Liao

1. A surname from Chinese.

A romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of 僚 (Liáo)

Liao

1. Synonym of Rau, a people of southeastern China

• Aloi, Oail