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See also:
U+5999, 妙
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5999

[U+5998]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+599A]

Translingual

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Stroke order
7 strokes

Han character

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(Kangxi radical 38, +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 女火竹 (VFH), four-corner 49420, composition )

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 256, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6090
  • Dae Jaweon: page 521, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1030, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+5999

Chinese

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trad.
simp. #
alternative forms

Glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *mews) : semantic (woman) + phonetic (OC *hmjewʔ, *hmjews)

Pronunciation 1

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Note:
  • miao6 - Shantou;
  • miou6 - Chaozhou.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (91)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter mjiewH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/miᴇuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/miɛuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/mjæuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/miawH/
Li
Rong
/miɛuH/
Wang
Li
/mĭɛuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mi̯ɛuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
miào
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
miu6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
miào
Middle
Chinese
‹ mjiewH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[m]ew(ʔ)-s/
English marvelous

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. 13702
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mews/

Definitions

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  1. subtle; mysterious; profound
  2. fine; glorious; marvelous; wonderful; exquisite
  3. ingenious; clever
  4. young
  5. a surname: Miao
Synonyms
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  • (ingenious):
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  • (fine):
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Compounds

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Pronunciation 2

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For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“tiny; minute; minuscule”).
(This character is a variant form of ).

References

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Jōyō kanji)

  1. mysterious
  2. strange, bizarre

Readings

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Etymology

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Kanji in this term
みょう
Grade: S
goon

From Middle Chinese (MC mjiewH).

Pronunciation

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  • (Tokyo) みょ [myóꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA(key): [mʲo̞ː]
  • Audio:(file)

Adjective

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(みょう) (myōめう (meu)?-na (adnominal (みょう) (myō na), adverbial (みょう) (myō ni))

  1. strange
  2. excellent

Inflection

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Noun

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(みょう) (myōめう (meu)?

  1. excellence

References

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  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

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Hanja

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(eumhun (myohal myo))

  1. hanja form? of (mysterious, subtle)
  2. hanja form? of (exquisite)

Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: diệu

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