苗
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Translingual
Han character
苗 (radical 140 艸+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 廿田 (TW), four-corner 44600, composition ⿱艹田)
Derived characters
References
- KangXi: page 1022, character 28
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30781
- Dae Jaweon: page 1481, character 19
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3191, character 2
- Unihan data for U+82D7
Chinese
| simp. and trad. |
苗 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 苗 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Western Zhou | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Qin slip script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (苗) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 貓 | *mreːw, *mrew |
| 描 | *mreːw, *mrew |
| 媌 | *mreːw, *mreːwʔ |
| 緢 | *mreːwʔ, *mreːws, *mrew |
| 苗 | *mrew |
| 猫 | *mrew |
| 庿 | *mrews |
Pronunciation
Definitions
苗
- seedling; shoot; sprout
- shoot-like object
- descendant (of a family); offspring
- symptom (of a trend)
- young (of an animal)
- Short for 疫苗 (yìmiáo, “vaccine”).
- the Hmong/Miao people
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
苗
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Readings
- Goon: みょう (myō)←めう (meu, historical)
- Kan’on: びょう (byō, Jōyō)←べう (beu, historical)
- Kun: なえ (nae, 苗, Jōyō); なわ (nawa, 苗, Jōyō, uncommon); かり (kari)
Korean
Hanja
苗 • (myo) (hangeul 묘, revised myo, McCune–Reischauer myo, Yale myo)
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Vietnamese
Han character
苗 (meo, miêu)
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