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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 109 +4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月山火竹 (BUFH), four-corner 69020)

  1. blind in one eye
  2. minute, minuscule

References

  • KangXi: page 802, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23188
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1218, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2472, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+7707

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 very small, minute

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. 13694
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mewʔ/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 俯遂幽眇
  • 幽眇
  • 微眇
  • 杳眇
  • 眇天末
  • 眇小
  • 眇小丈夫
  • 眇然
  • 眇眇
  • 眇眇忽忽
  • 眇覿眇觌
  • 眇風眇风
  • 眇默
  • 瞟眇
  • 窅眇
  • 要眇
  • 飄眇飘眇

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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