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妙

妙

See also: 玅

Translingual

Han character

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

  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.
 妙

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (小) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
觘 *sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
抄 *sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
鈔 *sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
訬 *sm̥ʰreːw, *mewʔ
炒 *sʰroːʔ
吵 *sm̥ʰreːwʔ, *mewʔ
耖 *sm̥ʰreːws
仯 *sm̥ʰreːws
眇 *mewʔ
渺 *mewʔ
杪 *mewʔ
秒 *mewʔ
篎 *mewʔ, *mews
妙 *mews
玅 *mews
釥 *sm̥ʰewʔ
小 *smewʔ
少 *hmjewʔ, *hmjews
麨 *m̥ʰjewʔ
尠 *senʔ, *smos

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 妙
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 宵 (91)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 彌笑切
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 妙
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 妙
Reading # 1/1
No. 13702
Phonetic
component		 小
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 妙
Old
Chinese		 /*mews/

Definitions

妙

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

妙

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. mysterious
  2. strange
  3. bizarre

Readings

Pronunciation

Adjectival noun

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

  1. strange
    • 1906, Natsume Sōseki, Botchan:
      妙 (みょう)に女 (おんな)のような優 (やさ)しい声 (こえ)を出 (だ)す人 (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

妙 ‎(hiragana みょう, romaji myō)

  1. excellence

Korean

Hanja

妙 • ‎(myo) (hangeul 묘, revised myo, McCune-Reischauer myo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

妙 (diệu)

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