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

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

Translingual

Stroke order
7 strokes

Han character

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

Derived characters

  • 𠴕, 𭚵, 𢭼, 𪶋, 𨁭, 𪴽, 𪝹, 𦯷, 𫁐, 𥭝

References

  • 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

trad.
simp. #
alternative forms

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation 1


Note:
  • miao6 - Shantou;
  • miou6 - Chaozhou.
    • Wu
      • (Shanghai):
        • Wugniu: 6miau
        • MiniDict: miau
        • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): 3miau
        • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /miɔ²³/
    • Xiang
      • (Changsha)
        • Wiktionary: miau4
        • Sinological IPA (key): /mi̯ɒu̯⁴⁵/

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

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

Compounds

  • 不妙 (bùmiào)
  • 丹青妙手
  • 二妙
  • 唯妙唯肖
  • 大事不妙
  • 大妙 (dàmiào)
  • 奇妙 (qímiào)
  • 奧妙奥妙 (àomiào)
  • 妙不可言
  • 妙事
  • 妙人
  • 妙光
  • 妙品
  • 妙善 (miàoshàn)
  • 妙喻
  • 妙善公主
  • 妙喻取譬
  • 妙因
  • 妙土
  • 妙年
  • 妙悟 (miàowù)
  • 妙想
  • 妙手 (miàoshǒu)
  • 妙才
  • 妙手丹青
  • 妙手回春 (miàoshǒuhuíchūn)
  • 妙手空空
  • 妙招 (miàozhāo)
  • 妙方 (miàofāng)
  • 妙曲
  • 妙果
  • 妙法 (miàofǎ)
  • 妙物
  • 妙理
  • 妙用 (miàoyòng)
  • 妙用無窮妙用无穷
  • 妙畫通靈妙画通灵
  • 妙發靈機妙发灵机
  • 妙禮妙礼
  • 妙筆妙笔 (miàobǐ)
  • 妙策 (miàocè)
  • 妙筆生花妙笔生花 (miàobǐshēnghuā)
  • 妙算 (miàosuàn)
  • 妙簡妙简
  • 妙絕一時妙绝一时
  • 妙絕時人妙绝时人
  • 妙聞妙闻
  • 妙聲妙声
  • 妙舞 (miàowǔ)
  • 妙舞清歌
  • 妙藥妙药 (miàoyào)
  • 妙處妙处 (miàochù)
  • 妙處不傳妙处不传
  • 妙言要道
  • 妙計妙计 (miàojì)
  • 妙訣妙诀
  • 妙語妙语 (miàoyǔ)
  • 妙語如珠妙语如珠
  • 妙語橫生妙语横生
  • 妙語解頤妙语解颐
  • 妙語連珠妙语连珠 (miàoyǔliánzhū)
  • 妙論妙论
  • 妙趣 (miàoqù)
  • 妙趣橫生妙趣横生 (miàoqùhéngshēng)
  • 妙道
  • 妙選妙选
  • 妙音 (miàoyīn)
  • 妙齡妙龄
  • 妙齡女郎妙龄女郎
  • 宛妙
  • 巧妙 (qiǎomiào)
  • 幼妙
  • 微妙 (wēimiào)
  • 拍案叫妙
  • 搜奇選妙搜奇选妙
  • 曲盡其妙曲尽其妙
  • 曼妙
  • 殊形妙狀殊形妙状
  • 深妙
  • 清歌妙舞
  • 玄妙 (xuánmiào)
  • 玄妙入神
  • 玄妙無窮玄妙无穷
  • 玄妙莫測玄妙莫测
  • 玄機妙算玄机妙算
  • 玄關妙理玄关妙理
  • 生花妙筆生花妙笔
  • 神妙 (shénmiào)
  • 神工妙力
  • 神機妙用神机妙用
  • 神機妙策神机妙策
  • 神機妙算神机妙算 (shénjīmiàosuàn)
  • 神機妙術神机妙术
  • 神算妙計神算妙计
  • 神術妙法神术妙法
  • 神術妙策神术妙策
  • 神術妙計神术妙计
  • 神謀妙策神谋妙策
  • 稱奇道妙称奇道妙
  • 窮妙極巧穷妙极巧
  • 窮極其妙穷极其妙
  • 窮極要妙穷极要妙
  • 窮靈盡妙穷灵尽妙
  • 精妙 (jīngmiào)
  • 精妙入神
  • 精妙絕倫精妙绝伦
  • 絕妙绝妙 (juémiào)
  • 絕妙好辭绝妙好辞
  • 維妙維肖维妙维肖 (wéimiàowéixiào)
  • 美妙 (měimiào)
  • 至妙
  • 莫名其妙 (mòmíngqímiào)
  • 莫明其妙 (mòmíngqímiào)
  • 要妙
  • 要言妙道
  • 語妙絕倫语妙绝伦
  • 造微入妙
  • 錦囊妙計锦囊妙计 (jǐnnángmiàojì)
  • 閨中妙質闺中妙质
  • 靈丹妙藥灵丹妙药 (língdānmiàoyào)
  • 餘妙繞梁余妙绕梁
  • 高妙 (gāomiào)
  • 墨妙

Pronunciation 2

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

References

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. mysterious
  2. strange, bizarre

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
みょう
Grade: S
goon

From Middle Chinese (MC mjiewH).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

(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

Noun

(みょう) • (myō) めう (meu)?

  1. excellence

References

  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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun (myohal myo))

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

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: diệu

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