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Translingual

Han character

(radical 38 +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 女火竹 (VFH), four-corner 49420, composition)

  1. mysterious, subtle
  2. exquisite

References

  • KangXi: page 256, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6090
  • Dae Jaweon: page 521, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1030, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+5999

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
*sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
*sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
*sm̥ʰreːw, *mewʔ
*sʰroːʔ
*sm̥ʰreːwʔ, *mewʔ
*sm̥ʰreːws
*sm̥ʰreːws
*mewʔ
*mewʔ
*mewʔ
*mewʔ
*mewʔ, *mews
*mews
*mews
*sm̥ʰewʔ
*smewʔ
*hmjewʔ, *hmjews
*m̥ʰjewʔ
*senʔ, *smos

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (91)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/miᴇuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/miɛuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/mjæuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/miawH/
Li
Rong
/miɛuH/
Wang
Li
/mĭɛuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mi̯ɛuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
miào
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
miào
Middle
Chinese
‹ mjiewH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[m]ew(ʔ)-s/
English marvelous

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 13702
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mews/

Definitions

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Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. mysterious
  2. strange
  3. bizarre

Readings

Pronunciation

Adjectival noun

(-na inflection, hiragana みょう, romaji myō)

  1. strange
    • 1906, Natsume Sōseki, Botchan:
       (みょう) (おんな)のような (やさ)しい (こえ) () (ひと)だった。
      Myō ni onna no yō na yasashii koe o dasu hito datta.
      He talked in a strangely effeminate voice like a woman.
  2. excellent

Inflection

Noun

(hiragana みょう, romaji myō)

  1. excellence

Korean

Hanja

(myo) (hangeul , revised myo, McCune-Reischauer myo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(diệu)

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