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say it: lee-OW
liao is a noun meaning "the dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125". It carries one recorded sense.
the dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for liao come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.