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Translingual

Han character

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

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

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) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/miᴇuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/miɛuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/mjæuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/miawX/
Li
Rong
/miɛuX/
Wang
Li
/mĭɛuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mi̯ɛuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
miǎo
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 13698
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mewʔ/

Definitions

  1. second (unit of time); (classifier for seconds)
    86,400   Yī tiān yǒu 86,400 miǎo.   There are 86,400 seconds in one day.
  2. second (unit of angle)

Synonyms


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. second

Readings

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana びょう, romaji byō)

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

Counter

(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

(cho, myo) (hangeul , , McCune-Reischauer ch'o, myo, Yale cho, myo)

Noun

(myo) (hangeul )

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

Vietnamese

Han character

(miểu, sao)

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