秒

秒 U+79D2, 秒
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79D2
← 科
[U+79D1] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 秓 →
[U+79D3]

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) 禾 (“grain”) (meaning) + 少 (sound).

Han character

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

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.
 秒

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (小) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
觘 *sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
抄 *sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
鈔 *sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
訬 *sm̥ʰreːw, *mewʔ
炒 *sʰroːʔ
吵 *sm̥ʰreːwʔ, *mewʔ
耖 *sm̥ʰreːws
仯 *sm̥ʰreːws
眇 *mewʔ
渺 *mewʔ
杪 *mewʔ
秒 *mewʔ
篎 *mewʔ, *mews
妙 *mews
玅 *mews
釥 *sm̥ʰewʔ
小 *smewʔ
少 *hmjewʔ, *hmjews
麨 *m̥ʰjewʔ
尠 *senʔ, *smos

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 秒
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 宵 (91)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 亡沼切
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 秒
Reading # 1/1
No. 13698
Phonetic
component		 小
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 眇
Old
Chinese		 /*mewʔ/

Definitions

秒

  1. second (unit of time); (classifier for seconds)
    一天有86,400秒。  ―  Yī tiān yǒu 86,400 miǎo.  ―  There are 86,400 seconds in one day.
  2. second (unit of angle)
Synonyms
Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 秒 – see 藐 (“to ignore, to slight, to disregard; to contemn, to disdain”).
(This character, 秒, is the second-round simplified form of 藐.)
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji

秒

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. second

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
秒
びょう
Grade: 3
on’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

秒 (hiragana びょう, rōmaji byō, historical hiragana べう)

  1. second (one-sixtieth of a minute; SI unit of time)
  2. second (unit of angular measure)

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  3. ↑ 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

秒 • (cho, myo) (hangeul 초, 묘, McCune–Reischauer ch'o, myo, Yale cho, myo)

Noun

秒 • (myo) (hangeul 묘)

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

Vietnamese

Han character

秒 (miểu, sao)

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