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Translingual

Han character

(radical 85 +9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水月山竹 (EBUH), four-corner 39120)

  1. endlessly long, boundless, vast
  2. The number 10-11

References

  • KangXi: page 635, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17794
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1043, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1673, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+6E3A

See also

  • Chinese Numeral

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
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
miǎo
Middle
Chinese
‹ mjiewX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[m]ewʔ/
English vast (of water)

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. 13695
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mewʔ/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 微渺
  • 杳渺
  • 浩渺
  • 深渺
  • 渺不可測渺不可测
  • 渺不相涉
  • 渺小 (miǎoxiǎo)
  • 渺渺
  • 渺渺冥冥
  • 渺渺茫茫
  • 渺無聲息渺无声息
  • 渺然
  • 渺茫 (miǎománg)
  • 渺視渺视
  • 渺邈
  • 煙波浩渺烟波浩渺
  • 縹渺缥渺
  • 茫茫渺渺
  • 荒渺不經荒渺不经
  • 飄渺飘渺 (piāomiǎo)
  • 魚沉雁渺鱼沉雁渺

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(miểu, diễu, diệu, giẻo)

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