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Translingual

Han character

(radical 53 广+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 戈十十月 (IJJB), four-corner 00227, composition广)

  1. temple, shrine
  2. imperial court

References

  • KangXi: page 350, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9489
  • Dae Jaweon: page 662, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 901, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5EDF

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔr'eːw
*mrews
*ʔr'ew, *r'ew
*r'ew

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (92)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mˠiᴇuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/mᵚiɛuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/miæuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/miawH/
Li
Rong
/mjɛuH/
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
‹ mjewH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[m]raw-s/
English a kind of building with side rooms

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. 1306
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mrews/
Notes 庿

Noun

  1. Buddhist temple

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Noun

(hiragana びょう, romaji byō)

  1. mausoleum
  2. shrine
  3. palace

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(miếu, mưỡu, méo, miễu)

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