苗

Translingual

Han character

苗 (radical 140 艸+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 廿田 (TW), four-corner 4460₀, composition ⿱艹田)

1. sprouts
2. the Hmong/Miao people

Derived characters

• 描, 喵, 貓 (猫), 渵, 媌, 瞄, 錨 (锚), 緢, 鶓 (鹋), 庿

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

苗 (Jyutping miu4, Yale miu4)

1. the Hmong/Miao people

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Japanese

Kanji

苗

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: みょう (myō), from めう
• Kan’on: びょう (byō), from べう
• Kun: なえ (nae), かり (kari)

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Korean

Hanja

苗 (myo) (hangeul 묘, revised myo, McCune-Reischauer myo, Yale myo)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

苗 (Pinyin miáo (miao2), Wade-Giles miao²)

1. the Hmong/Miao people

Compounds

• 苗条

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Middle Chinese

Han character

苗 (myɛu)

1. the Hmong/Miao people

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Vietnamese

Han character

苗 (miêu, meo)

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