Translingual

Han character

秒 (radical 115 禾+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹木火竹 (HDFH), four-corner 2992₀, composition ⿰禾少)

References

• KangXi: page 850, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24952
• Dae Jaweon: page 1274, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2593, character 12
• Unihan data for U+79D2

Chinese

Glyph origin

Pronunciation

Definitions

秒

1. second (unit of time); (classifier for seconds)

   一天有86,400秒。  ―  Yī tiān yǒu 86,400 miǎo.  ―  There are 86,400 seconds in one day.

2. second (unit of angle)

Synonyms

• 秒鐘／秒钟 (miǎozhōng)

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. second

Readings

• On: びょう (byō)
• Kun: のぎ (nogi)

Pronunciation

• On'yomi
• (Tokyo) びょ​う [byóꜜò] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [bjo̞ː]

Noun

秒 ‎(hiragana びょう, romaji byō)

1. second (unit of time)
2. second (unit of angle)

Counter

秒 ‎(hiragana びょう, romaji -byō)

1. seconds (duration)

Compounds

References

1. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

秒 • ‎(cho, myo) (hangeul 초, 묘, McCune-Reischauer ch'o, myo, Yale cho, myo)

Noun

秒 • ‎(myo) ‎(hangeul 묘)

1. Hanja form^? of 묘, “second (unit of time, as a component)”.

Vietnamese

Han character

秒 (miểu, sao)

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