# 了了
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): liǎoliǎo
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄠˇ ㄌㄧㄠˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): liu$^5$ liu$^5$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): liáu-liáu
    (Hailu, HRS): liau$^ˊ$ liau$^ˊ$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): lieo$^3$ lieo$^3$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): liáu-liáu
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: liǎoliǎo [Phonetic: liáoliǎo]
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄠˇ ㄌㄧㄠˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: liǎoliǎo
*** Wade–Giles: liao$^3$-liao$^3$
*** Yale: lyǎu-lyǎu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: leauleau
*** Palladius: ляоляо (ljaoljao)
*** Sinological IPA : /li̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ li̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: liu$^5$ liu$^5$
*** Yale: líuh líuh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: liu$^5$ liu$^5$
*** Guangdong Romanization: liu$^5$ liu$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /liːu̯¹³ liːu̯¹³/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: liáu-liáu
*** Hakka Romanization System: liau$^ˋ$ liau$^ˋ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: liau$^3$ liau$^3$
*** Sinological IPA: /li̯au̯³¹ li̯au̯³¹/
** (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
*** Hakka Romanization System: liau$^ˊ$ liau$^ˊ$
*** Sinological IPA: /liau²⁴⁻³³ liau²⁴/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: lieo$^3$ lieo$^3$ [Phonetic: lieo$^1$ lieo$^3$]
*** Sinological IPA : /lieu⁴⁵³⁻⁵⁵ lieu⁴⁵³/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: lieo$^3$ lieo$^3$ [Phonetic: lieo$^1$ lieo$^3$]
*** Sinological IPA : /lieu³³²⁻⁵⁵ lieu³³²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liáu-liáu
*** Tâi-lô: liáu-liáu
*** Phofsit Daibuun: liawliao
*** IPA (Xiamen): /liau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ liau⁵³/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /liau⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ liau⁵⁵⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /liau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ liau⁵³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /liau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ liau⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /liau⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ liau⁴¹/

### Verb

了了
* (literary) to know clearly

#### Derived terms

* 不甚了了 (bùshènliǎoliǎo)
* 小時了了，大未必佳 / 小时了了，大未必佳

### Adjective

了了
* (literary) intelligent; clever
    From: Liu Yiqing (editor), A New Account of the Tales of the World, 5th century CE
    Wěi yuē: “Xiǎoshí liǎoliǎo, dà wèibì jiā.” Wénjǔ yuē: “Xiǎng jūn xiǎoshí, bì dāng liǎoliǎo.” [Pinyin]
    Chen Wei, dismissing the story, said, "Many a clever boy failed to grow into an intelligent man." Kong Wenju replied, "I reckon that you must have been quite clever a boy once."
* (Southern Min) all
       Chit-ê bē-sái, hit-ê m̄-thang, choân lí ê ì-kiàn--liáu-liáu. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
       (please add an English translation of this usage example)

#### Synonyms

* (intelligent):
* 乖巧 (guāiqiǎo)
* 伶俐 (línglì)
* 儇 (Wu, of a child)
* 奢遮 (Wu, of a child)
* 宿鬼 (Hokkien)
* 性靈 / 性灵 (xìnglíng) (literary)
* 敏慧 (mǐnhuì)
* 明慧 (mínghuì)
* 明智 (míngzhì)
* 機敏 / 机敏 (jīmǐn)
* 機智 / 机智 (jīzhì)
* 機穎 / 机颖 (literary)
* 機警 / 机警 (jījǐng)
* 機靈 / 机灵
* 活絡 / 活络 (Wu)
* 睿智 (ruìzhì)
* 穎異 / 颖异 (yǐngyì) (formal)
* 精濟 / 精济 (Hokkien, of a child)
* 精靈 / 精灵 (jīnglíng)
* 精齊 / 精齐 (Hokkien, of a child)
* 聰慧 / 聪慧 (cōnghuì)
* 聰敏 / 聪敏 (cōngmǐn)
* 聰明 / 聪明 (cōngmíng)
* 聰穎 / 聪颖 (cōngyǐng) (formal)
* 英明 (yīngmíng)
* 調皮 / 调皮 (tiáopí)
* 靈 / 灵 (líng)
* 靈光 / 灵光 ($^6$lin-kuaon) (Wu)
* 鬼 (guǐ) (informal)

### Adverb

了了
* (Southern Min) exhausted; completely used up
       Niáu-chhí hō͘ niau-á lia̍h-liáu-liáu ah. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
       The mouse was completely caught by the cat.

#### Derived terms

* 死了了

### References

* “Entry #60”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.
* “Entry #61”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.
* 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “了了”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎ (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
* “Entry #573”, in 臺灣客語辭典 [Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka] (overall work in Chinese and Hakka), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2022.
* 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “了了”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 360.
* “Entry #63140”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.