liao

Indicates action completion, or more generally, perfective aspect.

I run 4 laps liao.

You decorate the cake liao?

Marks a change in state, more or less in the same manner as the inchoative aspect (see usage notes).

It’s going to rain liao.

Reach liao, give me a call.

Marks a change in state, more or less in the same manner as the inchoative aspect (see usage notes).

Go liao!

Meats, vegetables, and other ingredients added to an otherwise plain dish.

Bak Chor Mee, less mee, Auntie. No extra liao today.

Had this hearty bowl of bak chor mee today at Blk 58 New Upper Changi Road market. […] This is the $5 bowl with extra liao. […]

A river of Manchuria (northeastern China)

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

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.

One of various medieval dynasties of Khitan rulers in Chinese history originally from its watershed

To the Han people, the Khitan were not much more than barbarians. Interlopers from the Mongolian steppes, they moved into the northern provinces of China in the 10th century and established the Liao empire (named for the Liao River), one of the wealthiest and most powerful dynasties of its time. The short-lived Liao reign lasted from 907 until 1125, but at its height stretched from Manchuria to Inner Asia.

Liaoning, a Chinese province surrounding and named for the Liao watershed