Entry
  1. Taru adjective, Adverb taking the 'to' particle

    lonely; dreary; desolate; barren

    Formal or literary term

  2. few; scarce; sparse; rare; hardly any

    Formal or literary term

Also written 寥寥【りょうりょう】

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Characters in this word

1
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

lonely

Kun
さび.しい
On
リョウ
Strokes
14
Radical
roof

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Dictionary and index codes (12)
CodeReference
2-3-11SKIP code
3m11.5The Kanji Dictionary
3020.2Four corner code
5be5Unicode hex code
1-53-76JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1333Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1359New Nelson (John Haig)
2346New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2960Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
7292Morohashi
liao2Pinyin reading
ryoKorean reading