How it used to be written
These are the forms of 遼, the traditional character: 辽 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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不论黑暗如何辽阔,我们都必须提供自身的光明。
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
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中国幅员辽阔,因而茶的品种繁多。
China's territory is vast, thus the types of tea vary.
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巴西是一个幅员辽阔的国家。
Brazil is a huge country.
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鸭绿江位於中朝边界,是中国辽宁省与北韩之间的重要界河。
The Yalu River is located on the China–North Korea border and is an important boundary river between Liaoning Province in China and North Korea.